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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:19:22 PST
- Message-ID: <9211172319.AA01710@thalidomide.lucid>
- X-Windows: It could be worse, but it'll take time.
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: zmacs style elastic mini-buffer
- References: <1992Nov17.193123.254@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- In message <1992Nov17.193123.254@ennews.eas.asu.edu> Subbarao Kambhampati wrote:
- >
- > Is there a way in which we can have the minibuffer become more than
- > one line long whenever it needs to show long inputs or outputs?
-
- Not without rewriting large parts of redisplay. The current non-design
- has too many stupid assumptions about minibuffers in it. You can make the
- minibuffer window be more than one line high, but redisplay messes up.
-
- -- Jamie
-