GNU bug report logs - #5423
Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 18340

Found in versions 23.1.91, 24.4.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5423: Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:17:02 +0100

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> * Lennart Borgman [2010-01-19 15:12+0100] writes:
>
>> Is not the right fix to allow minibuffer resizing even when the
>> minibuffer frame is separate?
>>
>> I have never heard of the problem with resizing the minibuffer. Is
>> that documented somewhere?
>
> There is the variable resize-mini-windows.  I set that to nil and
> multiline messages are very annoying.


I can agreee multiline message are annoying, but I do not find
multiline prompts annoying. It seems a bit wrong that they are coupled
to each other.
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