same-window-regexps for M-x man

same-window-regexps for M-x man

[Dmitriy Igrishin]

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Hey all,

Somebody can explain why the code below does not work
as expected ?

(add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\`\\*Man.*\\*\\'")
nor
(add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\*Man.*\\*")

does not force display man pages with M-x man
in the same window (as expected).

I am totally annoyed to switch to *Man buffers for C-x 1 when
I working in shell mode. I found it more naturally to view
man pages in the window of the shell mode (as in Un*x shell).

Please, any workaround (solution)?

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// Dmitriy.

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Re: same-window-regexps for M-x man

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:30:42 +0300
> From: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>
> 
> Somebody can explain why the code below does not work
> as expected ?
> 
> (add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\`\\*Man.*\\*\\'")
> nor
> (add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\*Man.*\\*")
> 
> does not force display man pages with M-x man
> in the same window (as expected).

Because "M-x man" doesn't use display-buffer?

> Please, any workaround (solution)?

Try customizing Man-notify-method to the value `pushy'.

Re: same-window-regexps for M-x man

[Dmitriy Igrishin]

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2011/3/10 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

> > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:30:42 +0300
> > From: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>
> >
> > Somebody can explain why the code below does not work
> > as expected ?
> >
> > (add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\`\\*Man.*\\*\\'")
> > nor
> > (add-to-list 'same-window-regexps "\\*Man.*\\*")
> >
> > does not force display man pages with M-x man
> > in the same window (as expected).
>
> Because "M-x man" doesn't use display-buffer?
>
> > Please, any workaround (solution)?
>
> Try customizing Man-notify-method to the value `pushy'.
>
To my blame I was confused by same-window-regexps
and didn't tried to figure out this variable myself...
Thank you very much!

PS. Maybe it should be documented (noticed) in the documentation
here
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Force-Same-Window.html
?
Because I personally considered that the M-x man affected
by same-window-regexps as M-x shell after reading 25.4 chapter
of the doc...


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// Dmitriy.

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