Re: Minibuffer height problem

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:

> max-mini-window-height is documented in the Emacs Manual,
> in the minibuffer section.
>  
Yes, in the "user part", but I was reading the Elisp Manual and in 20.1 
Introduction to Minibuffers it says

   " The minibuffer's window is normally a single line; it grows
   automatically if necessary if the contents require more space. "

Which I think is not the whole truth and actually might stop the user 
from searching for more information.

> But I think I see a bug here: for y-or-n-p, I think it should
> show the last part of the message rather than the first,
> so that the "? (y or n)" appears.  In other words, it should
> scroll up so the bottom appears on the screen.
>
> Could someone please implement that, and ack this message?
>  
I can not do it now, but I observed that yes-or-no-p does not have this 
problem. Also if you enter some invalid answer to y-or-n-p it will write 
"Please ..." in the wrong place in the minibuffer.