Re: Undocumented breaking change in minibuffer behavior

[Johan Bockgård]

Vitalie Spinu <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed that emacs 24 ignores the global (t) value of truncate-lines
> (as a result of this fix
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.diffs/111667 ). This change is not
> documented in the news.
>
> I've been truncating lines for years now, and the continuous flickering
> in emacs 24 is really disturbing (especially on laptops with small
> display). I am a heavy user of IDO which would always re-size the
> minibuffer to two lines. The same problem with long eldoc lines.
>
> I wonder if there should be an option like minibuffer-truncate-lines to
> undo the  "fix"?

  ;; Emulate Emacs 23
  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook
            (lambda ()
              (setq truncate-lines (default-value 'truncate-lines))))