From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Garjola Dindi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist actions Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:40:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87o8g7zxra.fsf@pc-117-162.ovh.com> References: <87sg5lgy2z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87k0qxtekt.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87mtvsf72s.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11149"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TcGgzItCmlaKWC2O/Ehgjc/diec= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 21:41:41 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1lFNS8-0002o9-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:41:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFNS7-0003xd-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFNRa-0003xO-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFNRY-0002rK-Gq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFNRW-0002FV-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:41:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128265 Archived-At: On Thu 25-Feb-2021 at 17:25:15 +01, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021 at 20:52, Joost Kremers wrote: >> Yes, it's the easiest thing to grok. I've found Protesilaos Stavrou's >> comments and Youtube video on the topic helpful: > > Indeed. His videos are excellent. On the same topic, David Wilson recently did a video explaining how to customize display-buffer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H2nU0rsUMY And just last Friday, he did a live coding session showing how to write custom display action functions (starting at 34'30"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqNhJsVmVUg > >> What you could do, however, is write your own display-buffer function, >> which checks the frame dimensions and calls >> `display-buffer-side-window` with either `(side . left)` or `(side >> . bottom)`. > > Yes! Very simple and, in hindsight, kind of obvious . Thank > you. I have now done this and it works perfectly. --