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Re: ESC ! long single line output deserves better that usual minibuffer


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: ESC ! long single line output deserves better that usual minibuffer treatment
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:00:51 +0200 (IST)

On 3 Feb 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> ESC ! and ESC | are smart enough to crack open the *Shell command
> output* buffer onto the screen for viewing of multi line output.
> Single line output need only be shown in the minibuffer.  However, in
> the case of a single long line of shell output, exceeding the edge of
> the minibuffer, steps should be taken to at least inform the user
> "there's more to the story", and even better would be to crack open
> that *Shell command output* buffer onto the the screen.

Thank you for your suggestion.

In the next version of Emacs, the echo area resizes automatically to hold 
more than one line, up to a user-definable limit.



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