From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:54:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9755.9843.306611.23448@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536764862 20677 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2018 15:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:07:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 17:07:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g06jw-0005HG-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:07:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g06m3-0000VF-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g06iS-0005i2-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g06XC-0006L2-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38156 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g06XC-0006KU-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g06V1-0003GH-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:52:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:W8DXDdwhfEcRbazuCocJxtqBvO8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229709 Archived-At: > Currently, BBDB uses the function bbdb-pop-up-window for this, which > already provides some flexibility. I could try to tweak this > function as described in the above request. But it seems to me that > I might reinvent the wheel. There should be general code for this > that BBDB could use. The main system Emacs uses for that is `display-buffer`, which the user can customize via `display-buffer-alist`. Stefan