From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening buffers in particular windows? Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:57:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270335491 11917 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2010 22:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Pawel Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 04 00:58:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyCHy-0000u5-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:58:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NyCHy-00088u-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NyCHY-00086q-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51725 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NyCHJ-0007xi-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyCH6-0004an-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:61689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyCH6-0004ah-F5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so1671253vws.0 for ; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.86.196 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:57:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-Received: by 10.220.157.136 with SMTP id b8mr1773216vcx.131.1270335427032; Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:57:07 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72591 Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Pawel wrote: > Brendan Miller writes: > >> M-x man is actually kind of annoying because I usually want it to open >> in the window that I run the command in. >> > > good point. > the first thing I did after learning elisp a bit was to open buffer list > (C-x b) in current window. Solution is specific to buffer list only, but > the question remains for other cases. > > best regards > I think that now that monitors have gotten so big, it's common to have 3 or 4 windows open, whereas in the past most emacs users probably had 2 max. For this reason most of the "open in other window" type commands now behave very unpredictably with 3 or more windows. I'm currently learning elisp so I can fix things like this for myself. Guidance on how C-x o, dired's o, C-x b, and M-x man decide which of n windows is the "other window" would be helpful. Hopefully they all just call some "other window" function that I can hook to customize its behavior. Brendan