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From: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan")
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Subject: Re: Why I hate Emacs
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Date: 15 Dec 90 22:10:20 GMT
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   [8905]  daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Bug_GNU_Emacs 12/15/90 12:56 (27 lines)
   Date: 12 Dec 90 21:55:09 GMT
   From: augean!sibyl!ian@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au  (Ian Dall)

   In article <1990Dec11.173151.5117@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu 
   (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:
   -You almost certainly typed "C-x n" instead, and emacs almost certainly
   -showed you the following message:
   -
   -"You have typed C-x n, invoking the disabled command narrow-to-region.:

   But this *does* raise the issue of seeing all the prompt at once. I
   know the minibuffer does horizontal scrolling, [ ... ]

In the version of emacs we are using (18.54), it splits puts the "You
have typed FOOBAR, invoking the disabled command ..." message in a
different window, splitting the current window if necessary.  So the
only time you wouldn't see at least a good portion of the message
would be if you already had several windows on the screen, and all of
them were too small to display more than a line or two.  If that's
the case, however, you probably know enough about emacs to handle the
situation.  :-)

Barr3y