help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame?

[Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>]

Hi, use Emacs with multiple frames, one on each monitor, and typically one window per frame. Now that I have lots of frame space, I find it annoying when functions like (describe-function) split the frame I am on. I am wondering if it is possible to change something so that functions like that instead display the buffer in a different frame.

Looking for someplace to start, I dove down into `describe-function' source code and eventually found myself trying to hack temp-buffer-window-show, so that its display-buffer call got passed another frame, i.e., from `get-other-frame'. Aside from thinking there must be some simpler solution, I also couldn't get this to work consistently. It worked on the first call to describe-function but not after that.

I also looked a bit into override temp-buffer-show-function but changing this variable didn't seem to have any effect.

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