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]

>>> Simply because I asked my window manager to always maximize Emacs frames.
>> Aha!
>> Yet another loophole!
> Hmm...  Given the popularity (among a certain kind of users) of tiling
> window managers and the popularity (among a much larger kind of users) of
> using fullscreen apps, I don't think Emacs can expect to fully control the
> size of its frame.  But indeed I see what you mean, ideally emacs -Q should
> give a frame of the same size everywhere.  So it could perhaps make sense to
> try to do something like:
>
> (set-frame-width nil 80)
> (set-frame-height nil 40)
>
> (which works for me) at the end of the initialization process with "-q" or
>  "-Q".

I definitely wouldn't want that for `-q`.

It might make sense in this case for `-Q`, but I'm not sure it's a good
tradeoff since we also want `emacs -Q` to mean something like "run with
no special configuration".

So maybe a better option is for the recipe to specify the frame's width.


        Stefan