bug#13672: Pretest 24.2.93: minibuffer doesn't go small again after a multi-line echo.

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 06:13:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:47:26 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > Emacs 24.2.93 pretest:

> > emacs -Q

> > Now display a multi-line output in the echo area, e.g. with

> > C-x C-f .emacs
> > M-: imenu-generic-expression

> > .  M-x now clears the buffer, but fails to return it to a single line's
> > height.  This is surely a bug.

> Not a bug, but a deliberate behavior.  Emacs behaved like that by
> default since v21.1.  What you want you can have if you customize
> resize-mini-windows to have the value t; see the doc string for more
> details.

> The reason for the default value is to avoid the annoying up and down
> jumps of the mode line when the echo area displays messages of
> different length.

Ah.  OK.  Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).