From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recommended way to make pop-to-buffer use the current window? Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:46:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33394"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8kbdCzVxwNtWPKn3xxlbD2XCZhw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 15:47:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m4OBy-0008Uq-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:47:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4OBx-00083n-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4OB5-00082F-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:46:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4OB4-0007B5-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:46:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m4OAz-000786-Qr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:46:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131746 Archived-At: You can let-bind `display-buffer-overriding-action` for that (it was added specifically for those kinds of situations). Stefan I think you can use the `other-frame-window` package for that. Eduardo Ochs [2021-07-16 01:05:43] wrote: > Hi list, > > what is the recommended way to create a wrapper around a function that > uses `pop-to-buffer' to make it use the current window to display its > buffer? I am asking because I want to add support for shortdoc to eev... > If I run this > > (shortdoc-display-group 'alist) > > in a two-window setting in which the selected window is the one at the > left then the buffer "*Shortdoc alist*" appears in the right window, > and the selected window becomes the one at the right... > > ...and I would like to create a function that can be called like this, > > (find-shortdoc 'alist) > > that would work like `shortdoc-display-group' but that would never > change the window setting and that would always use the current window > to shortdoc buffer... > > If anyone is curious about why eev needs this, there is more info here: > > http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-here-links-intro.html#2 > (find-here-links-intro "2. \"Here\"") > > http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#3 > (find-eev-quick-intro "3. Elisp hyperlinks") > > Thanks in advance, > Eduardo Ochs > http://angg.twu.net/#eev