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23.0.60; 1) resize-mini-windows: customizable, 2) if grow mini, grow Completions

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 1291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nuxdoors <at> cegetel.net
Subject: bug#1291: 23.0.60;	1) resize-mini-windows: customizable, 2) if grow mini, grow	Completions
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:17:10 +0100

> That is not to say that the minibuffer display can never override whatever is
> decided for the *Completions* display, but it should not do so gratuitously. It
> should take the *Completions* display into account.

Ideally, yes.  But, as I said before, we first need a mechanism that
allows us to establish a connection between such windows and the
minibuffer (we could try to fit a window to its buffer _after_ resizing
the minibuffer, but it's obvious how fragile such a solution would be).

> But I don't think this should be fixed in some general way, treating the
> *Completions* or minibuffer window in the same way as any other window. If
> that's what you're suggesting wrt `window-size-fixed', then I think that's
> probably not the best approach.

FAIK the *Completions* windows and the minibuffer are independent from
each other.  So we have to find a mechanism to tell the window
management part what to do.  Fixing window sizes in some "lax" fashion
is one way to do that.

martin

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