Start emacs like this: xrdb -load ^D emacs -Q --eval '(setq minibuffer-frame-alist (quote ((width . 80) (height . 1))) initial-frame-alist (quote ((minibuffer))))'
The detached minibuffer has insufficient space to display text. There isn't room to display the lower few pixels of minibuffer text. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, Motif Version 2.1.0) of 2006-06-15 on perth X server distributor `Hummingbird Ltd.', version 11.0.100015 configured using `configure '--prefix=/rvcarma/marshals/software/slash/usr/local' '--with-x-toolkit=motif' 'CFLAGS=-g'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB.ISO8859-1 value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.ISO8859-1 value of $LC_MESSAGES: C value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.ISO8859-1 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.ISO8859-1 value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.ISO8859-1 value of $LANG: en_GB.ISO8859-1 locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: delete-selection-mode: t mouse-sel-mode: t msb-mode: t partial-completion-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <down-mouse-3> <mouse-3> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <down-mouse-3> <mouse-3> <mouse-1> <select-window> <help-echo> <select-window> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> <triple-down-mouse-1> <triple-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> ; ; SPC <backspace> ; SPC s p a c e <down> <down> <return> <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> <backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <double-drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> 8 0 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> 1 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> <triple-down-mouse-1> <triple-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <escape> SPC <select-window> <help-echo> C-x 5 2 <switch-frame> <drag-n-drop> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> Recent messages: Loading advice...done Loading paren...done Loading complete...done Loading msb...done Loading mouse-sel...done Loading delsel...done Loading lazy-lock...done Quit Mark set [3 times] Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug