Re: Permanently increase size of minibuffer / echo area

Joost Kremers <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 17:19:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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?

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Joost Kremers
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