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minibuffer beyond end of screen in emacs23

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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org, 3643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3643: emacs -Q doesn't fit on the user's screen
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:42:18 +0100

On 2010-01-13 00:07, jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
> On 09 Jan 2010
> JD>  That is indeed a bad thing to do.  I added some code to address that.
>
> OK, but
> $ emacs -Q
> still won't fit on many screens, at least under icewm. Compare firefox.
>
> I thought
>
>    GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.5)
>    of 2010-01-12 on elegiac, modified by Debian
>    (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20100111-1)

I don't know how often Debian takes its snapshot or how it relates to 
bzr trunk.  To really test it, get Emacs from the bzr repository on 
savannah.

>
> However
> $ zcat /usr/share/doc/emacs-snapshot-common/changelog.gz|head -n 1
> 2010-01-02  Eli Zaretskii<eliz <at> gnu.org>
>
> So that date is misleading...

The date is from when Emacs was built.

	Jan D.

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