From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:22:07 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874o1tytdc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4E3AFA34.2090903@gmx.de> <4E3C53AC.6050403@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312741733 3014 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2011 18:28:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: grischka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 20:28:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq85d-0001uf-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq85d-0007At-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq85R-0006Um-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq85Q-00010c-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:41742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq85P-00010R-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772606E8074; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 11:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843BF451C247; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 11:28:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E3C53AC.6050403@gmx.de> (grischka's message of "Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:33:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142970 Archived-At: >> But I do use an unlimited number of windows (and frames), so I really >> want to cater to such users as well ;-) > > "As well" I suppose means that in next release > > emacs -Q RET C-x 3 M-x y TAB > > will finally open the *completions* in a 3rd full width bottom > window also for everyone, I'm impatiently waiting for this as well ;) > possibly instructed by a nice default entry in the new > 'display-buffer-alist'? I'd like to do this with something like: (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '( ((name . "*Completions*") (method near-minibuffer below-selected other-window)) ) i.e. first try to create a 3rd full width bottom window, then try to display the *Completions* buffer below the currently selected window, and when this is not possible then display it in any other window on the same frame.