From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46034: Feature request: add variable for automatically selecting the apropos window Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:29:08 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87lfcjbmgj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21427"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 46034@debbugs.gnu.org To: SB Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 23 18:35:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l3Moc-0005Rb-77 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:35:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3Mob-0002wZ-8I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3MoR-0002se-Ov for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3MoR-00025R-H3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l3MoR-0002Ru-EA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:35:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:35:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46034 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46034-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46034.16114232649343 (code B ref 46034); Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46034) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Jan 2021 17:34:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35180 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l3Mno-0002Qd-7p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.198]:34675) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l3Mng-0002Ph-L5 for 46034@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:34:17 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.98.64 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-98-64.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.98.64]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E643C0007; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:34:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (SB's message of "Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:02:05 +0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:198437 Archived-At: > Feature request for "apropos.el": add a variable for automatically > selecting the apropos window when it is shown. > > Please add an "apropos-window-select" variable that is analogous to > help.el's "help-window-select". I don't know why there is this too specific option 'help-window-select'. It seems there are many other windows that needs to be customized to select them. Wouldn't it be more general solution to use display-buffer-alist, maybe with something like: (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (post-display . select-window)))