RE: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Drew Adams]

> >>> Top positioning has either the same problem as near
> >>> point (your annoyance: obscuring info) or the same
> >>> problem as bottom-positioning.
> >> Agreed.  Top positioning might be better for other
> >> reasons though.
> > What reasons?
> 
> When the minibuffer is updated, and its height has to change, the
> bottom-positioned minibuffer will have to move its input area up.
> That's hella annoying.

Is it?  Doesn't annoy me, and that's what I
use daily.

How is it worse than a minibuffer at screen
top extending its input area downward?

In any case, as I said, if you can put the
minibuffer at screen bottom then you can put
it at screen top - user choice.  There's no
need to debate individual preferences or
annoyances in that regard.