Is there a way to make the Emacs minibuffer show up larger in the center of the window?

Basically, the minibuffer is small and at the bottom of the screen.

With a large monitor esp开发者_开发百科ecially, this means I often need to lean forward to read it. It is also very long - this makes it slower to read. (no line breaks)

The minibuffer is sort like a launcher/error area - so it seems logical that it act more like some combination of quicksilver/growl.

You can make the minibuffer taller by using the function enlarge-window or its keyboard shortcut C-x ^. See is it possible to move the emacs minibuffer to the top of the screen? for some thoughts on how to move the minibuffer itself.

Consider using a standalone minibuffer frame. That saves real estate: no need for a minibuffer in each frame. And it also lets you configure the look and feel separately for the minibuffer. I use a minibuffer frame that extends across my whole screen and is (by default) 2 lines high. The minibuffer can hold any number of lines, BTW.

This is what I use, in case it helps:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/oneonone.el

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Dedicated_Minibuffer_Frame