From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <9755.9843.306611.23448@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87y3c7pw4w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h8iuik3g.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87o9d2eaql.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <875zzawbd6.fsf_-_@moondust.localdomain> <5B9A1599.2060800@gmx.at> <17488.90794.824863.23451@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <5B9B725F.504@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536926374 8669 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 11:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:59:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eric Abrahamsen , "N. Jackson" , Roland Winkler , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 13:59:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mkz-00027o-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mn5-0002NI-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mmu-0002JV-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mmt-0005ap-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:48819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mmp-0005Kj-Fk; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w8EC171h008313; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5EB566A66C; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:01:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5B9B725F.504@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:33:35 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6374=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6374> : inlines <6878> : streams <1798422> : uri <2710264> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229775 Archived-At: >> 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