GNU bug report logs - #17809
24.4.50; Completions display

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 17809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#17809: 24.4.50; Completions display
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:47:00 +0300

>> But then (window-height . fit-window-to-buffer) will be called
>> on the empty buffer, that will always produce a small window
>> with 3-lines height.
>
> Then don't do that.  If you want to do both - formatting and fitting -
> have QUIT-FUNCTION do that.  So in BODY put the text into the buffer and
> in QUIT-FUNCTION first format the text according to what the window size
> gives and then try to fit the window to the formatted text.

Then the users will lose the ability to override window fitting
by redefining `window-height' in `display-buffer-alist'.
Not sure how important this is.

> And note that `display-buffer-base-action' is a user variable.

Isn't `display-buffer-alist' a customizable variable intended for users?

I see no other way for a function to override `display-buffer-fallback-action',
but still allow the users to customize it in `display-buffer-alist'.
Only `display-buffer-base-action' can be used for this.

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