bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones

[Stefan Monnier]

> I still think that the changes introduced by Eli in xdisp.c should be
> reverted.  They are not a solution for the problem, and they change
> a long-standing behavior of a central part of Emacs, which might break or
> cause other problems with third-party packages that do unimaginable things
> with miniwindows.

Like any change, Eli's change can introduce regressions, but so far
I haven't seen any clear regression, whereas we do know of one very
clear improvement.
So reverting would be ill-advised at this point.


        Stefan