bug#1114: marked as done (M-` results in huge minibuffer)

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Your message dated Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:50 -0400
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has caused the Emacs bug report #1114,
regarding M-` results in huge minibuffer
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> M-` results in huge minibuffer
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> Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:19:12 -0700
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> In certain conditions M-` will cause emacs to display a huge
> minibuffer, occupying most of the frame. To replicate:
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> start an emacs -Q
> C-x 3
> M-`
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> This seems to mostly occur when the frame contains only vertical
> splits (that's vertical as in C-x 3), but in some cases a window setup
> containing a horizontal split also shows the bug.
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> Some example key sequences, each starting from a fresh emacs with
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> M-` -> fine
> C-x 3 M-` -> bug
> C-x 3 C-x 3 M-` -> bug
> C-x 3 C-x 2 M-` -> fine
> C-x 3 C-x 3 C-x o C-x o C-x 2 M-` -> bug
> C-x 3 C-x 3 C-x 2 M-` -> fine
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> I hope that's clear.
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> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
> Also observed in GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of
> 2007-08-18 on TPAD
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> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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> Re: M-` results in huge minibuffer
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> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:50 -0400
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> > > In certain conditions M-` will cause emacs to display a huge
> > > minibuffer, occupying most of the frame.
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> > I think the reason might be the call to fit-window-to-buffer in
> > Electric-pop-up-window.
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> Lennart's correct.  I've checked in a tweak to Electric-pop-up-window
> that should prevent this from happening.  Thanks for the bug report.
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