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bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized


From: martin rudalics
Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:01:57 +0200

>>  >>  > (The manual also says:
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >    You can resize it permanently by using the window sizing commands 
in
>>  >>  >    the frame's other window, when the minibuffer is not active.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > I don't know what this means. It doesn't seem to work in any version 
of
>>  >>  > Emacs that I can find.)
>>  >>
>>  >> The terminology "in the frame's other window" seems to indicate that
>>  >> this was written in an earlier century.
>>  >
>>  > How would you rephrase this for this century?
>>
>> Maybe "in a window adjacent to it"?
>
> What's the difference?
>
> Is your problem with the "window", in singular, or with something
> else, like "the frame"?
>

What does a term like "the frame's other window" mean?  A frame can have
a couple of "other windows".  It took me some while to find out that the
other window must be a full height live window.

martin





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