emacs question

[Ben Pfaff]

"Ian Clemens" <clemens.ian@aeg1.com> writes:

> I want to set my minibuffer frame height to a default of 4 in my .emacs
> file. I'm working with long strings for search and replace, and would like
> more lines in the minibuffer. I've tried
> (resize-minibuffer-mode)
> to get the minibuffer to automatically resize, but it's inconsistent.

Try this in your .emacs file:

(save-selected-window 
  (select-window (minibuffer-window))
   (enlarge-window (- 4 (window-height))))

Replace "4" by the desired minibuffer window height.
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