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23.0.60; dired-pop-to-buffer: use fit-window-to-buffer

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Message #65 received at 1488 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 1488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1488: 23.0.60; dired-pop-to-buffer: use fit-window-to-buffer
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:29:57 +0100

> I finally had time to apply your patch and give it a whirl.  Initial
> tests together with my patched dired-pop-to-buffer indicate it DTRT,
> i.e., both with and without a header line I can shrink the frame and
> invoke dired-pop-to-buffer without signalling an error until only one
> dired line is displayable: then shrinking is no longer possible and
> dired-pop-to-buffer shows one file (also with signalling an error).
> I'll keep using it, maybe I'll hit a corner case, but it seems ok.

I checked in a revised version of this.  It's pretty hard to get right,
especially when shrinking non-full-width-windows.  There's still a
corner case I cannot handle.  Anyway, please report immediately when
something appears wrong.

Thanks, martin.

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