RE: [Annoyance] resizing of echo area is too eager

[Wedler, Christoph]

Kenichi Handa wrote:

 >>>>> By they way, even with the default value of resize-mini-windows
 >>>>> (grow-only), the behaviour of quail input method should be improved.
 >>>>> Previously, it resizes the echo area so frequently, but now it makes
 >>>>> the area taller just once, and keep that hight until you turns the
 >>>>> input method off.  Could you verify it?

 >> No, with Emacs-21.2.95, changing quail.el doesn't change the behaviour
 >> (echo area has 2 lines only if korean characters are displayed there,
 >> after the character has been inserted, the echo area is back to 1 line).

 > Ah, sure, sorry.  My change just suppressed the resizing
 > while you are typing Korean letters.  Previously, each time
 > you type a key, the echo area was resized.

OK, I see that difference (with a key sequence for a quail rule which is
also a prefix of the key sequence of another quail rule).

Yes, your change in quail.el has improved things.

 > It seems that there's no way other than setting resize-mini-windows
 > to nil to completely suppressing the resizing.

Hm, I use a idle-time `message' (like in eldoc.el) with non-default
characters in my package X-Symbol...  Setting the user option
`resize-mini-windows' there wouldn't be nice.

- Christoph