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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #115 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:59:17 +0200

>> This should be
>> generalized so as to be able to say "preferably in the selected-window"
>> (to provide basically the behavior of switch-to-buffer), or "preferably
>> in selected-frame", or "preferably close to the minibuffer".  The first
>> 2 are available *to the user* via the `same-window' and `same-frame'
>> attribute that they can set in special-display-buffer-names, but they
>> should also be available to the program (and overridable by the user).
>
> But none of these provide the behavior wanted by Juri.  He wants to
> split the selected window which runs counter to the `pop-up-frames'
> non-nil ideology.  So I suppose we need a "preferably splitting the
> selected window" value which can be overridden by `pop-up-frames'.

The preferred location of the window can be expressed by the new parameter
proposed by Stefan: in addition to `same-window' and `same-frame' it
could also support a parameter like `fit-below' with the meaning
of creating a new window below from the current window with calling
`fit-window-to-buffer' on it.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

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