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28.2; Minibuffer content is sometimes unexpectedly partially hidden

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: triska <at> metalevel.at, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 67715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de
Subject: bug#67715: 28.2; Minibuffer content is sometimes unexpectedly partially hidden
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:02:49 +0200

Ping!  Markus, can you please answer Alan's question?

> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:49:28 +0000
> Cc: 67715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> Hello, Eli and Markus.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 11:38:03 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Ping!  Alan, could you please chime in?
> 
> > > From: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
> > > Cc: 67715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> > > Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:09:23 +0100
> 
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > > > I think we made the mini-window resize in more situations.  I cannot
> > > > be sure, though: too many years have passed.  Sorry.
> 
> > > No problem, thank you regardless! I have now pinpointed the issue to
> > > commit dfa3e6f424b20fe27d9041b2ce7d69811df5d8cd:
> 
> More informatively:
> 
> commit dfa3e6f424b20fe27d9041b2ce7d69811df5d8cd
> Author: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> Date:   Fri May 20 20:18:38 2022 +0000
> 
>     Restore the Fselect_window call in gui_consider_frame_title.
> 
> > > The example works before this commit, and stops working after this
> > > commit. The commit addresses #55412. I am CC-ing you Alan, and would
> > > greatly appreciate if you could look into this issue, also gladly
> > > offlist if you have any questions regarding the application, so as
> > > not to bother the list further with this issue which is already
> > > tagged as WONTFIX.
> 
> I think I would rather that discussions continue in the thread for this
> bug.
> 
> 2022 is a long time ago, and the patch was in one of the more arcane
> areas of Emacs.  I'm not completely sure what the problem is - I've had a
> look at the thread in debbugs/67715, without absorbing it fully, but I'm
> not entirely sure what it's about.
> 
> I think it was something to do with inserting oversized text
> programmatically into a minibuffer, and wanting its miniwindow to enlarge
> to display the text.
> 
> > > If there is any way to resolve this so that the original snippet
> > > keeps working also in newer Emacs versions, I would greatly
> > > appreciate your help!
> 
> As you say, the bug was closed as won't fix, I think mainly because it
> would have been too difficult to fix without causing other problems.
> 
> Why is it so important to fix it?
> 
> > > Thank you all for your help, and all the best,
> > > Markus
> 
> -- 
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
> 

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