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greg@euler.alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes:

> I checked this out and its definitely a solution, though not really
> the one I was looking for.  Instead of having the minibuffer grow to
> multiple lines I was hoping for something that would scroll the one
> minibuffer line to keep as much as possible visible when it is wider
> than the screen, like most single-line-of-text entry widgets.

	Yeah, it rsz-minibuf seems to work ok, although it sometimes
seems it isn't detecting when it needs to enlarge correctly.


> David> 	Am I missing something, or can I just not see these messages?
> David> This is with default single attached minibuffer.  At least in the text
> David> window it grows the minibuffer so you can see messages.
> 
> Have you tried `scroll-right' and `scroll-left' (C-x > and C-x <)?
> These work for me.  I have keys bound to scroll left and right by 1/4
> screen at a time which works even better but is still not an ideal
> solution.  Having to know to press "C-x >" to find out what emacs is
> telling you is not really something a novice is likely to figure out.

	You're right, those work.  Maybe I didn't try since there was no
$ on the LHS making me think I could use them...  But certainly that's
not a good answer for a person who will get prompts the first few times
they use xemacs.


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