GNU bug report logs - #6253
Please resize mini-buffer for queries even if resize-mini-windows is nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:48:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6253: Please resize mini-buffer for queries even if  resize-mini-windows is nil
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 15:49:52 +0200

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Otherwise you just see the last line of a multiple line query prompt.
>
> Hmm... IIUC when the user sets resize-mini-windows to nil, that's
> because she doesn't want this resizing.
> And multiline prompts are a problem (in cases where resizing is simply
> impossible, for example) in any case.  So I think the right thing to do
> is to report the "multiline prompts" as bugs.


I think what the user normally want is to avoid messages that resizes
the miniwindow. I guess most users want to see the whole multiline
prompt.

Why not distinguish between those cases? Maybe a new value for
resize-mini-windows.

With regards to multiline prompts please remember that a "short"
prompt may wrap because it includes something that is long. That could
for example be the case when the prompt includes a file path. So
beeing able to always resize the mini window is useful whatever we do.
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