bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones

[Stefan Monnier]

> This could be a useful new feature, but we still need to decide what
> should the display engine do when the chunk of text marked with this
> new indication (some text property, probably?) cannot all of it be
> displayed.  Should it then display only its first part, only its last
> part, something else?

I think this can be controlled with the position of point (which
I guess should be presumed to be somewhere within the "important
chunk").  The idea would be to maximize the amount of chunk that's
displayed, but under the usual constraint that point is displayed.


        Stefan