GNU bug report logs - #11276
minibuffers windows can no longer be explicitly resized

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 11276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:47:05 +0300

> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:23:02 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> CC: rgm <at> gnu.org, 11276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  >> Does it work if you set `resize-mini-windows' to nil?  If I do that
>  >> here, I can, for example, drag the divider between the emacs -Q main
>  >> window and the minibuffer window with the mouse.
>  >
>  > This doesn't work for me, neither on the trunk nor on the emacs-24
>  > branch.
> 
> With a split frame you should be able to do that.
> 
>  >>  > (The manual also says:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >    You can resize it permanently by using the window sizing commands in
>  >>  >    the frame's other window, when the minibuffer is not active.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I don't know what this means. It doesn't seem to work in any version of
>  >>  > Emacs that I can find.)
>  >>
>  >> The terminology "in the frame's other window" seems to indicate that
>  >> this was written in an earlier century.
>  >
>  > How would you rephrase this for this century?
> 
> Maybe "in a window adjacent to it"?

What's the difference?

Is your problem with the "window", in singular, or with something
else, like "the frame"?

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