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>>>>> On 27 May 1993 15:36:44 EST,
>>>>> In message <DSCHIEB.93May27153644@muse.cv.nrao.edu>,
>>>>> dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) wrote:

Darrell> As near as I can tell, currently neither emacs-19 nor lucid
Darrell> emacs allows one to have a single minibuffer which is shared
Darrell> by all screens/frames and resides in a screen/frame of its
Darrell> own.

emacs-19 can do this.

Try executing the following lisp with your original emacs window up:


(progn
  (let ((current-frame (selected-frame)))
        (setq default-minibuffer-frame
              (make-frame '((height . 1)
                            (width . 80)
                            (name . "minibuf")
                            (menu-bar-lines . 0)
                            (minibuffer . only))))
        (setq default-frame-alist
              (cons '(minibuffer . nil) default-frame-alist))
        (make-frame)
        (delete-frame current-frame)))

Or you could put something like the following in your .emacs to have
it happen automagically:

(setq minibuffer-frame-alist
      (append minibuffer-frame-alist
              (list '(minibuffer . only) '(name . "minibuf"))))

(setq initial-frame-alist '((minibuffer . nil)))