Subject: bug#27941: 25.2; next-line-add-newlines and minibuffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:59:26 +0300

> From: Daniel Gildea <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:14:00 -0400
> 
> If you
> 
> (setq next-line-add-newlines t)
> 
> then pressing <down> in the minibuffer always adds a newline,
> rather than moving to the next history item.

I think that's the intended behavior; you need to type M-n to get the
next history element.

"C-h k <down>" says this key moves cursor either down or to the next
history element.  The minibuffer can be more than one line high.