GNU bug report logs - #34939
Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying

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Message #71 received at 34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: pinkanon pinkanon <pinkanon.pinkanon <at> yandex.ru>, 34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:47:35 +0300

>> Another variant is to extend 'echo_area_display' to use
>> 'minibufer-message' in case of the active minibuffer.
>
> I think I'd like that. Guess the only downside is having to decide
> whatever's going to happen when the current minibuffer contents are too
> long for the area to accommodate both them and the message?

I see no downsides - using minibuffer-message already does the right thing:
it resizes the minibuffer area.

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