Re: scroll-left *Disabled Command* buffer is too short

[martin rudalics]

> Thiat patch doesn't make the last line visible; instead, it expands the
> height of the minibuffer.  

Indeed.  I concentrated to make this work with split windows.

> However, I played around with the idea and
> the following does the job, though the window is actually much higher
> than it needs to be.

We could use `shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer'.

> *** novice.el   2007-01-21 23:44:40.000000000 +0100
> --- novice.el   2007-07-03 16:04:45.000000000 +0200
> ***************
> *** 92,97 ****
> --- 92,98 ----
>         (help-mode)))
>        (message "Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): ")
>        (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
> +        (fit-window-to-buffer)
>          (while (progn (setq char (read-event))
>                      (or (not (numberp char))
>                          (not (memq (downcase char)
>
> To be honest, I do not understand why your patch failed, nor why this
> one works (better).

Your patch fails with split windows, maybe you could play around a bit more.

Anyway users should be able to scroll the window with the text because the
text might be larger than the frame.