From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plea for sanity from a frustrated hacker.
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:29:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsyc7akb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5uc3fxk.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun\, 10 Jun 2007 01\:45\:43 +0300")
> BTW, I have another frustration with this function. I like to view
> the Help buffer and visit source code from it in the *same* window.
> The former is achieved by
> (add-hook 'same-window-regexps "\\*Help\\*\\(\\|<[0-9]+>\\)")
> But the latter is impossible since as can be seen in code above
> `help-function-def' calls the function `pop-to-buffer' which displays
> the source code buffer in a different window.
For what it's worth, I'd hate the behavior you like.
So I don't think the code is wrong because the behavior should not be
determined by the code but by user preferences. I.e. the problem is that
the behavior of pop-to-buffer is not yet configurable enough.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-10 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-09 17:41 A plea for sanity from a frustrated hacker Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-09 16:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-09 17:59 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-09 20:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-09 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-10 3:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-06-10 14:28 ` Juri Linkov
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