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minibuffer beyond end of screen in emacs23

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: evgeny.zubok <at> tochka.ru
Cc: jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 3643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3643: Bug#567083: emacs -Q doesn't fit on the user's screen
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:33:04 +0800

>>>>> "EMZ" == Evgeny M Zubok <evgeny.zubok <at> tochka.ru> writes:
EMZ> I've just installed emacs23-lucid (GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
EMZ> X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2009-10-19 on
EMZ> debian-build.int-office-er.priv, modified by Debian) from
EMZ> lenny-backports, and... I havn't noticed the problem with IceWM. Emacs
EMZ> window fits screen height nicely. It seems this is emacs23-gtk
EMZ> feature. I don't think that this is IceWM bug.

I see the bug with
$  apt-cache policy emacs23
emacs23:
  Installed: 23.1+1-6
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
 of 2010-01-27 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10704000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

I haven't installed these
$ aptitude search ~nemacs.*gtk
p   emacs-snapshot-gtk
p   emacs22-gtk
v   emacs23-gtk
And I note
$ aptitude -v show emacs-snapshot-gtk
Package: emacs-snapshot-gtk
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 1:20100125-1
Priority: optional
Section: main
Maintainer: Romain Francoise <rfrancoise <at> debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 53.2k
Architecture: all
Compressed Size: 20.5k
Filename: pool/main/e/emacs-snapshot/emacs-snapshot-gtk_20100125-1_all.deb
MD5sum: 6a09b2cb079bdeb40d180ff5e7a0bb5e
Archive: unstable
Depends: emacs-snapshot <-------
PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.21)
Description: The GNU Emacs editor (transitional package)
 Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed. <-------
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

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