From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23093: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:45:49 -0300 Message-ID: <87y49agutu.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bn66ifc3.fsf@gmail.com> <56F1932A.3060507@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458675990 29452 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2016 19:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23093@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 20:46:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFs-0001lY-PT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:46:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFs-0003M0-9Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFj-0003Iu-Gt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFe-0005qL-H7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFe-0005qG-DX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1aiSFe-0001yz-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. 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That seems a rather terrifying customization given that the current value of `temp-buffer-max-height' is: (lambda (buffer) (if (and (display-graphic-p) (eq (selected-window) (frame-root-window))) (/ (x-display-pixel-height) (frame-char-height) 2) (/ (- (frame-height) 2) 2))) >> I suppose whether a "portrait" or "landscape" completions window is >> better probably depends on the number and length of the completions and >> also on the user's frame size, so presumably the splitting behaviour >> should be a user option. > > It is. Please customize =E2=80=98display-buffer-alist=E2=80=99 for the b= uffer named > *Completions*. This also doesn't seem a trivial customization; it involves alists of alists, cons cells, regular expressions, functions. This seems to be rather a lot to ask of the user just so they can get back the Emacs 24 behaviour. Instead, I was thinking more along the lines of a simple Boolean variable called something like completions-window-prefer-split-right with a default value of non-`nil' to give the old behaviour, and `nil' would give the behaviour we're currently seeing in Emacs 25.