Rookie Question: No Separate Minibuffer

[roland . rau]

Dear all,

I installed yesterday (for auctex & preview-latex) GNU Emacs[1].
Coming from XEmacs[2],  I evaluated my .emacs file (or .xemacs/init.el)
line by line and after a short while, GNU Emacs behaved as I hoped.
This morning, however, when I started GNU Emacs, the minibuffer turned
out to be a separate window.
Can somebody point me into the direction what I can do to avoid this?

I checked the usenet for "separate minibuffer" but the results
(typically from the 90s) dealt mainly with the wish to have a separate
minibuffer (which is not my wish).

Thanks,
Roland




[1] "GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-04-17 on
LAPTOP"
[2] "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 13) \"Rational FORTRAN\" [Lucid]
(i586-pc-win32) of Sun May 25 2003 on TSUNAMI"