From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 10:51:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttj0rzv1.fsf@librehacker.com> (raw)
Hi, use Emacs with multiple frames, one on each monitor, and typically one window per frame. Now that I have lots of frame space, I find it annoying when functions like (describe-function) split the frame I am on. I am wondering if it is possible to change something so that functions like that instead display the buffer in a different frame.
Looking for someplace to start, I dove down into `describe-function' source code and eventually found myself trying to hack temp-buffer-window-show, so that its display-buffer call got passed another frame, i.e., from `get-other-frame'. Aside from thinking there must be some simpler solution, I also couldn't get this to work consistently. It worked on the first call to describe-function but not after that.
I also looked a bit into override temp-buffer-show-function but changing this variable didn't seem to have any effect.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-14 18:51 Christopher Howard [this message]
2024-05-15 2:38 ` [External] : help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame? Drew Adams
2024-06-24 6:19 ` Björn Bidar
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2024-06-24 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-15 5:35 ` Yuri Khan
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