Re: A plea for sanity from a frustrated hacker.

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>> BTW, I have another frustration with this function.  I like to view
>> the Help buffer and visit source code from it in the *same* window.
>> The former is achieved by
>
>>     (add-hook 'same-window-regexps "\\*Help\\*\\(\\|<[0-9]+>\\)")
>
>> But the latter is impossible since as can be seen in code above
>> `help-function-def' calls the function `pop-to-buffer' which displays
>> the source code buffer in a different window.
>
> For what it's worth, I'd hate the behavior you like.
> So I don't think the code is wrong because the behavior should not be
> determined by the code but by user preferences.  I.e. the problem is that
> the behavior of pop-to-buffer is not yet configurable enough.

That's exactly what I meant.  pop-to-buffer doesn't allow configuring its
behavior to display the source buffer in the same Help window.  I don't argue
for changing its default behavior.

How about adding a new user option, e.g `same-window-regexps-from'?
By analogy with `same-window-regexps' it will contain a list of regexps
saying that displaying a buffer from these buffers should appear in the
same window.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/