Re: minibuffer really large. how to shrink it?!

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From: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 16:53

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In article <SHAWN.91Mar18095500@litsun.epfl.ch>, shawn@litsun.epfl.ch (Shawn Koppenhoefer) writes:
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> When i call up epoch on a sun4 I get a minibuffer that is
> exactly the same size as the working-zone (where I edit files).

It sounds like you have an Xdefault of the form

epoch*geometry: 80x24

which will cause the minibuffer to be that size also. Add an Xdefault like

epoch.minibuf.geometry: 80x1

and that should fix your problem.

-- 
Alan M. Carroll                "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired"
Epoch Development Team                 - Susan
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll

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