bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

[Mekeor Melire]

Hello :)

`info-lookup' (from info-look.el) does not respect `display-buffer-alist'.

To reproduce an example, open some buffer in fundamental-mode, evaluate

    (setq
      display-buffer-alist
      '((t (display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-same-window))))

and type

    C-h S c-mode RET sin RET

We'd expect the *info* buffer to be shown in the current window. Instead, a new window is created. This is because info-look.el does neither call display-buffer, nor does it take display-buffer-alist into account by itself:

    https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/info-look.el?h=605414d018da47f99dec5019142f584b6eb174c8#n395

Kindly
Mekeor

bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: rs@ralph-schleicher.de
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:02:56 +0000
> 
> Hello :)
> 
> `info-lookup' (from info-look.el) does not respect `display-buffer-alist'.
> 
> To reproduce an example, open some buffer in fundamental-mode, evaluate
> 
>     (setq
>       display-buffer-alist
>       '((t (display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-same-window))))
> 
> and type
> 
>     C-h S c-mode RET sin RET
> 
> We'd expect the *info* buffer to be shown in the current window. Instead, a new window is created. This is because info-look.el does neither call display-buffer, nor does it take display-buffer-alist into account by itself:

Thanks.

You should be able to get what you want by customizing the option
info-lookup-other-window-flag to the nil value.

I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect every command to use
display-buffer or its family for every window it displays.

bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

[Mekeor Melire]

2023-06-13 14:07 eliz@gnu.org:

> You should be able to get what you want by customizing the 
> option info-lookup-other-window-flag to the nil value.
>
> I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect every command to use 
> display-buffer or its family for every window it displays.

Thanks, Eli. In that case I'll just close this issue. Especially 
since I'm satisfied with info-lookup-other-window-flag. Sorry for 
the noise. :)

bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
> Cc: 64029-done@debbugs.gnu.org, rs@ralph-schleicher.de
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:43:30 +0000
> 
> 2023-06-13 14:07 eliz@gnu.org:
> 
> > You should be able to get what you want by customizing the 
> > option info-lookup-other-window-flag to the nil value.
> >
> > I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect every command to use 
> > display-buffer or its family for every window it displays.
> 
> Thanks, Eli. In that case I'll just close this issue. Especially 
> since I'm satisfied with info-lookup-other-window-flag. Sorry for 
> the noise. :)

It wasn't noise, and you have nothing to be sorry about.

Thank you for your interest in Emacs.