Re: [h-e-w] extra newline in minibuffer causes grief

[David J. Biesack]

> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> 
> > On this XP machine, I'm noticing strange behavior. Whenever a message
> > gets echoed to the minibuffer (i.e. (message "test")), the minibuffer
> > grows by an extra line.
> 
> What is your default font?  ("C-u C-x =" will tell you).  Some buggy
> fonts appear to define the baseline at the bottom of the character
> cell, so if there are any descenders (qypj) on the line, the
> minibuffer needs to resize to avoid chopping them off at the bottom.

That was it. The old font I had on my other systems (a 6x13 font from X11)
does not exist on my new computer, so Emacs picked the next best match,
"-outline-Lucida Sans 
Unicode-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-p-*-iso8859-15" 
which seems to be the cuplrit.  I changed my default font and things
are much happier.

thanks

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