Re: Permanently increase size of minibuffer / echo area
Joost Kremers <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 17:19:32 +0200
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>> So I was wondering: is there a better way to make sure that the minibuffer >> / echo area is always at least 2 lines high, even when it's empty? Is there >> perhaps even a "right" way to do it? > > The "right" (and IMO the _only_) way of doing that is to do it on the > C level. Because various places in C reset the mini-window back to > its single-line empty state. So we need some optional feature to make > that default size be N lines tall instead. Thanks, Eli, for the quick answer. Do you think that might be doable for someone who's not very familiar with Emacs's C code? -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments