From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23093: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:09:49 +0100 Message-ID: <56F24F4D.9010206@gmx.at> References: <87bn66ifc3.fsf@gmail.com> <56F1932A.3060507@gmx.at> <87y49agutu.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458720684 1222 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2016 08:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23093@debbugs.gnu.org To: "N. 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Please customize =E2=80=98display-buffer-alist=E2=80=99 for t= he buffer named >> *Completions*. > > This also doesn't seem a trivial customization; it involves alists of > alists, cons cells, regular expressions, functions. I'm afraid this is a hurdle you'll eventually have to deal with anyway. =E2=80=98display-buffer-alist=E2=80=99 is now essential for too many appl= ications. I've never been fond of it (as you can find out from some very vivid early discussions) but meanwhile have learned to live with it as well. > This seems to be rather a lot to ask of the user just so they can get > back the Emacs 24 behaviour. > > Instead, I was thinking more along the lines of a simple Boolean > variable called something like completions-window-prefer-split-right > with a default value of non-`nil' to give the old behaviour, and `nil'= > would give the behaviour we're currently seeing in Emacs 25. Maybe Juri can help you here. I'll add him to the recipients. martin