Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.05.2020 04:14, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > Top positioning has either the same problem as near
> > > point (your annoyance: obscuring info) or the same
> > > problem as bottom-positioning.
> > Agreed.  Top positioning might be better for other
> > reasons though.
> What reasons?

When the minibuffer is updated, and its height has to change, the 
bottom-positioned minibuffer will have to move its input area up.

That's hella annoying.