Re: emacs-28 6170c50: Fix regression in help-mode prompt

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:01:21 +0100
> 
> > I didn't change the text to improve it, I changed it to make it
> > shorter.  Because otherwise, when we echo the keys typed by the user,
> > they overflow the (default) window width, and that resizes the
> > mini-window, which causes an unpleasant effect of scrolling the Help
> > window.
> >
> > If you can suggest a different solution that avoids the resizing,
> > please do.
> 
> Is this about the *Metahelp* buffer displayed by typing `C-h ?'?  Then I
> think it's sufficient to prompt with "Type one of the options%s: ",
> since the buffer containing the options is in plain view.

Those options go out of view as soon as you scroll.