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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Simply because I asked my window manager to always maximize Emacs 
> > frames.
>
> Aha!
>
> Yet another loophole!

Hmm...  Given the popularity (among a certain kind of users) of tiling 
window managers and the popularity (among a much larger kind of users) of 
using fullscreen apps, I don't think Emacs can expect to fully control the 
size of its frame.  But indeed I see what you mean, ideally emacs -Q 
should give a frame of the same size everywhere.  So it could perhaps make 
sense to try to do something like:

(set-frame-width nil 80)
(set-frame-height nil 40)

(which works for me) at the end of the initialization process with "-q" or 
"-Q".