GNU bug report logs - #3643
minibuffer beyond end of screen in emacs23

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:40:12 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 4995

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#3643: minibuffer beyond end of screen in emacs23
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:50:41 +0800

Can you believe with emacs23, the first time user doing
$ emacs
will get an emacs with the minibuffer inaccessible off the user's
monitor?!

That's right, all he needs is a laptop as regular sized as the one Dr. Stallman
carries around, AND he uses X-windows.

Try this test in emacs23
$ xrdb /dev/null
$ seq 222 > /tmp/v
$ emacs -Q /tmp/v # minibuffer inaccessible off the user's monitor, same with -q
$ emacs -Q -eval '(tool-bar-mode 0)' /tmp/v # needed for emacs23

On my monitor, the file is shown with the bottom line being emacs22: 38,
emacs23: 36.

The problem is with emacs23 the minibuffer is inaccessible, beyond the
bottom.

Apparently developers never tested on anything less than long luxurious
screens or used icewm or something.

emacs-version "23.0.94.1"
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 95 days ago.

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