Cannot specify editor height

I do most of my editing in the HTML and other rather than the WYSIWYG editor. Recently there was a change where the editor window will dynamically resize based on the amount of text you have typed. At first I have plotted this change but unfortunately for me it is causing another problem. Whenever the text box grows to longer than the heights of my screen, I have a problem because I’m using Dragon Naturally Speaking dictation software and it tries to constantly center the text box on my screen even though the portion of the box that I’m typing in might be above or below the edge of my screen. It’s a little bit difficult to describe but for my purposes let’s just say that Dragon doesn’t play well with text entry boxes that are larger than the height of the window.

I tried turning off the dynamic editor box size and initially that leaves the HTML or “text” version of the editor window at a height of approximately 2 lines. I did discover a workaround that if I switch to the “visual” version of the editor it expands to about 10 lines and then I can switch back to the “text” version and it remains at 10 lines. That makes the system usable for me again.

My feature request is I would like to have the ability to set a fixed height for the editor windows like we used to have. 10 is better than 2 but I would really like to have about 20. Or if we had an upper limit on the size of the dynamic box that would be useful as well. Then I could have the advantage of a dynamically sized box that would not exceed the height of my window and thus not mess up my use of Dragon software.

As an interim work around is there something I can patch on my own that sets the default size of a fixed size text entry box?