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Article #2112How enlarge the minibuffer window for read-string?
From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:03
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:03
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I would like to enlarge the minibuffer window when reading strings that can't be displayed in their entirety in it's normal 1-line configuration. (It should be enlarged by the number of newlines in the default argument to read-string.) When I try this (with x, prompt, and muli-line-default appropriately bound) (save-window-excursion (select-window (minibuffer-window)) (enlarge-window x) (read-string prompt multi-line-default)) I get the error "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer". If I move the read-string call outside of the save-excursion-window form, the enlarge-window call doesn't affect the size of the minibuffer window when read-string is called. Does anyone know how to do this? -- Kevin Rodgers kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com Martin Marietta MS A16401 (303) 790-3971 116 Inverness Dr. East Englewood CO 80112 USA GO BUFFS!
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.den.mmc.com!traffic!kevin From: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com (Kevin Rodgers) Subject: How enlarge the minibuffer window for read-string? Message-ID: <1993Jan9.000343.25284@den.mmc.com> Sender: news@den.mmc.com (News) Nntp-Posting-Host: traffic.den.mmc.com Reply-To: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com Organization: Martin Marietta Western Internal Systems, Technical Operations Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:03:43 GMT Lines: 27