Re: Rookie Question: No Separate Minibuffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

roland.rau@gmail.com wrote:
> 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).

You should have checked the Emacs manual and the Emacs Lisp manual
first.  Something is setting the frame's minibuffer frame parameter to
nil.

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Kevin Rodgers