Re: say where attempt to write backup file was

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think there is no easy way to cope with that case; the only thing
> that could do it is a feature to automatically grow a frame.

Actually there are a few other things we could do:
1 - try to keep messages short (which was my original point and is always
    the best solution when it's available).
2 - use scrolling if the message is larger than the minibuffer
    (IIRC there was some package back in Emacs-20 days that did just that).

> The question is whether that change does handle the cases we could
> reasonably hope to handle without far-reaching changes (which we
> couldn't make now).

My email was reminding people to keep messages short.  It was not meant to
tell them to wrap their long messages in ugly and brittle hacks like

      (let ((resize-mini-windows 'grow-only)
            (max-mini-window-height 1.0))


-- Stefan