Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:55:36 +0100

> And that's good: the list should be close to the question, not close to
 > the dired buffer.

If the dired buffer were not needed while asking the question, dired
could temporarily display that list in the dired window itself and
switch back to the dired buffer afterwards.  But I never use dired.

What about putting this in `pop-up-windows'?  Possible values are:

nil		do not allow popping up windows
'this		selected window
'below	  	below selected window
'below-split	split selected window vertically
'right		right of selected window
'right-split	split selected window horizontally
'bottom		use window near bottom of frame
'bottom-split	split window near bottom of frame
t		allow popping up windows

If an application (like dired) sees that this variable is t (the
default) it may ask to pop up the window wherever it's most suitable.
Otherwise, it has to respect the value chosen by the user.  Like

(let ((pop-up-windows (if (eq pop-up-windows t)
			  'bottom-split
			pop-up-windows)))
   (display-buffer ...))

martin