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Re: Why I hate Emacs

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From: Ian Dall
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 21:55
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In article <1990Dec11.173151.5117@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:
-In article <9012111501.AA09140@maui.coral.com>, tomt@maui.coral.com (Tom Tulinsky) writes:
-|> I'm typing a letter in Mail mode.  I try to do C-x C-n to set a goal
-|> column.  Now I'm getting beeps and my command line says `
-|>    "Please type y, n, or space"
-You almost certainly typed "C-x n" instead, and emacs almost certainly
-showed you the following message:
-
-"You have typed C-x n, invoking the disabled command narrow-to-region.:
-....."
-However, that's why the command is disabled by default -- emacs *DID* warn you
-that something unusual (to you) was going to happen.

But this *does* raise the issue of seeing all the prompt at once. I
know the minibuffer does horizontal scrolling, but I would prefer
a minibuffer that "grew" to exactly the right size for the message. It
could even disappear completely when not in use.

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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
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Subject: Re: Why I hate Emacs
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Date: 12 Dec 90 21:55:09 GMT
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