minibuffer

Emacs: Disable line truncation in minibuffer only

I am using ido mode for file & buffer switching in Emacs 23. The following options allow the minibuffer to be resized if there is more than one line worth of files in the directory: (setq resize-mini-windows t) ; grow and shrink as necessary (setq max-mini-window-height 3) ; grow up to max of 3 lines However, this only works if line...

Simulate minibuffer input in Emacs

Hey, I'm looking for a way to simulate minibuffer input. So, some-func takes some input from the minibuffer and does something with it. The problem is that I have to call some-func from some other function calling-func and I need to do it interactively so I cant just pass an argument. (defun some-func (arg) (interactive "*sEnter some...

How to have a different buffer list for each tabs in Vim?

Is it possible to kind of "attach" a list of buffers to particular tabs within Vim? I am currently using MiniBufferExplorer, which shows all buffers in nice tabs. It can be combined using standard vim tabs but the plugin's buffer list contains all the buffers and using tabs become a bit useless. Here's an example of what I'd like: Tab A...

In Emacs, how do I display a message in the minibuffer with font face properties?

I want to display a colored string of text in the minibuffer, but when I use the 'message' function, the text-properties of are stripped. ...

How can I prevent the mini-buffer from displaying previous commands in Emacs?

I am not even sure this is a previous command or a non-finished command or whatever, but I do know I really don't like it. My problem is that some commands (or messages, or whatever) get stuck in the mini-buffer so that when I type a new command it appears there really quickly, and then the mini-buffer is back to the stubborn command. ...

dynamic expansion in minibuffer no longer works when upgrading from Emacs 21.2

Continuing my process of migrating the latest & greatest Emacs 23.2, I hit another unpleasant surprise: dynamic expansion in minibuffer no longer works! By "dynamic expansion in the minibuffer" I mean the feature that lets you blindly hit the spacebar to complete filenames, variables, etc. I also invoked 'Emacs -Q' (to rule out any .em...