We already have something like this; look at wid-edit.el:216. I took 10 items to be the max size for single-character prompt, because there are as many digits. I don't see a reason to make this customizable. If you want to turn off the whole feature, just set widget-menu-minibuffer-flag to t. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- You have an unusual magnetic personality. Don't walk too close to metal objects which are not fastened down.