Re: Help with display-buffer-alist

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Friday, 15 Apr 2022 at 13:15, Ergus wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am trying to mimic somehow the swiper behavior with occur. The first
> step for that is to put the occur window always at bottom which was
> pretty simple with this:

Maybe my code which displays a variety of popups either to the far left
or at the bottom will help:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (defun esf/display-buffer-in-side-window (buffer alist)
    (let ((fw (/ 80.0 (frame-width))))
      (display-buffer-in-side-window buffer
                                     (if (> (frame-width) 120)
                                         (list (cons 'window-width fw)
                                               '(side . left)
                                               '(slot . 0)) 
                                       '((window-height . 0.25)
                                         (side . bottom)
                                         (slot . 0)))))) 
  (setq display-buffer-alist
        '(("^\\*Async Shell Command*" . (display-buffer-no-window))
          ("^magit-[a-z]+: " . (esf/display-buffer-in-side-window))
          ("\\*\\(Backtrace\\|Compile-Log\\|Dictionary\\|DICT .*\\|Directory\\|grep\\|[Hh]elp.*\\|Messages\\|Occur\\|org-roam\\|tex-shell\\|vc-\\(diff\\|change-log\\)\\|Shortdoc\\|Warnings\\|wclock\\|WoMan .*\\)\\*"
           (esf/display-buffer-in-side-window))))
#+end_src 

-- 
Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3