GNU bug report logs - #16115
24.3.50; doc string of `display-buffer-in-side-window' - there is no SIDE arg

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Message #29 received at 16115 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 16115 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16115: 24.3.50; doc string of `display-buffer-in-side-window'
 - there is no SIDE arg
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:09:30 +0100

>> `display-buffer-below-selected' or something similar might be the
>> answer.  Side windows serve a completely different purpose.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand.  The requester wanted the buffer to pop up on
> the right, not below.  And AFAICT the code I proposed does that.  Can
> you elaborate?

If it makes a "side window", the effect is that the new window will be
permanent unless explicitly deleted.  Does the requester want that?

> What is the right way to pop to a buffer in a window to the right?  IOW,
> the request was to get the effect of `C-x 3' but with the chosen buffer,
> not the same buffer, in the new window on the right.

If the frame is wide enough, `display-buffer-below-selected' will
display it on the right of the selected window, otherwise below.  This
can be tuned via `split-height-/width-threshold'.

martin

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