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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > This feature request can be closed.  I found a solution that works 
> > without changing anything in Emacs core.
>
> As I wrote on emacs-devel, I don't like the solution you've found. You 
> are, of course, free to use it in your code, but I don't think we should 
> adopt it in core Emacs.

Your reaction is saddening.  I'm very sorry to read this, but you rejected 
all my attempts to solve that problem so far, so that's not surprising. 
I'd bet that there are many places in Emacs where similar "quick and 
dirty" hacks are used.  At least I did my best to solve that problem.