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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display-buffer cleverness - how to tame?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:38:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FEA973.70705@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c9cc8b$ba796c50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>

 > I haven't spent a lot of time investigating, but the problem seems to be that
 > display-buffer now tries to split the largest window.

In Emacs 22 `display-buffer' tries to split the largest window first
and, if that fails, the least recently used window.  This behavior is
unchanged in Emacs 23.

 > In particular, I have two windows, left and right, with the left one wider and
 > selected when I call display-buffer. The behavior I want is for the right,
 > narrower window to be split (vertically). Instead, it is the left, wider window
 > that gets split (vertically).

In Emacs 22 `display-buffer' didn't try to split the largest window
vertically when it was not full-width.  No such restrictions applied for
the least recently used window.  In Emacs 23 the largest window can get
split even when it's not full-width.

To get the old behavior back in your case it will be best to write your
own `split-window-preferred-function' just as we're currently trying to
do for `dired-pop-to-buffer'.  This will let you specify explicitly
which window `display-buffer' should try to split and whether it should
split it vertically or horizontally.

martin




  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04  7:41 display-buffer cleverness - how to tame? Drew Adams
2009-05-04  8:38 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2009-05-04 14:39   ` Drew Adams
2009-05-04 15:03     ` Miles Bader
2009-05-04 15:49       ` Drew Adams
2009-05-04 18:58         ` Samuel Bronson
2009-05-05  2:50         ` Miles Bader
2009-05-04 16:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-04 16:41     ` martin rudalics
2009-05-04 17:13       ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05  7:02         ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 14:18           ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05 16:33             ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 16:58               ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05 18:55                 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 20:20                   ` Drew Adams
2009-05-06 16:21                     ` martin rudalics
2009-05-06 17:54                       ` Drew Adams
2009-05-07  9:37                         ` martin rudalics

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