GNU bug report logs - #79827
Add option to display Quail guidance on one line

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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Add option to display Quail guidance on one line
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:29:53 +0000

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The background to this change is that certain input methods, such as
Agda use a guidance string that resizes the minibuffer.  I find this
visually annoying, since resizing the minibuffer can cause the point to
move and the viewport of a buffer to change, so I'd like to have the
option to disable the behaviour.

Of course, we could also consider to just hard-code the change without
an user option, if we don't see any reason to keep the newline, but that
would be a more controversial decision.

I have separately proposed a patch to agda2-mode that would fix the
issue on older versions of Emacs, but the approach is finicky and it
would be better to upstream it: https://github.com/agda/agda/pull/8177.

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Message #8 received at 79827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 79827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79827: Add option to display Quail guidance on one line
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:10:49 +0200

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:29:53 +0000
> 
> The background to this change is that certain input methods, such as
> Agda use a guidance string that resizes the minibuffer.  I find this
> visually annoying, since resizing the minibuffer can cause the point to
> move and the viewport of a buffer to change, so I'd like to have the
> option to disable the behaviour.

This will only help if the guidance string is short enough, so is it
really a good idea to provide a user option that works only sometimes?

Btw, did you customize the value of resize-mini-windows, or is the
behavior you describe frequent with the default value of 'grow-only'?

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