Working through the remain glitches in order of annoyance.
[This started about the same time as the ispell window-size fixes
went it.]
xemacs -vanilla
M-x resize-minibuffer-mode
C-x C-f C-u 100 a
Now the minibuffer is resized. However the modeline has moved much
more upwards leaving behind artifacts from its shadow. After the
minibuffer is size back the modeline never moves downwards until the
frame is resized.
Jan
For really weird stuff, do
xemacs -vanilla
M-x resize-minibuffer-mode
C-x C-f C-u 500 a