From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
"N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>,
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5zz8guik.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B9B725F.504@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:33:35 +0200")
>> Can `display-buffer-alist' mentioned by Stefan do that (at least: in
>> principle)? I looked at its documentation in the elisp manual (not
>> the Emacs manual!), and I could not figure out how to use this
>> variable to achieve the goals discussed here. Does
>> `display-buffer-alist' provide the same functionality as the Gnus
>> code discussed in this thread?
> The purpose of 'display-buffer-alist' is to set up a window for one
> single buffer. It already fails miserably to make sure that two
> buffers get displayed simultaneously as the thread of Bug#32607 shows.
Exactly. So for the purpose of "orderly setting up
and saving compositions of windows", it's of no use, but in the specific
case of BBDB (which just needs to (temporarily) pop up a single buffer),
it should be sufficient.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 20:31 customize location and shape of a new window in a frame Roland Winkler
2018-09-11 21:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-12 19:36 ` N. Jackson
2018-09-12 20:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-12 23:21 ` Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' " N. Jackson
2018-09-13 7:45 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-13 13:07 ` N. Jackson
2018-09-14 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-13 16:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-14 8:33 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-14 16:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-15 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-14 5:17 ` Roland Winkler
2018-09-14 8:33 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-14 12:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-15 4:12 ` Roland Winkler
2018-09-15 4:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 8:18 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-15 16:34 ` Roland Winkler
2018-09-15 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 19:21 ` Roland Winkler
2018-09-15 12:24 ` N. Jackson
2018-09-15 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-15 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-16 3:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-16 19:05 ` John Yates
2018-09-16 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 20:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-13 16:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-12 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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