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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:30:10 +0100

>> Looking at this again, I believe what you want is to invert the order of
>> stealing and giving as in the attached patch.  Might have side-effects
>> elsewhere.
>
> Maybe a simpler solution

The change of `enlarge-window' _is_ simple - only the diff appears
complicated.  But we'd have to decide whether it's OK to steal from/give
to the previous window when enlarging a window.  (It makes a difference
only when we have at least three windows in a row or column.)

> is to change `fit-window-to-buffer'
> so in such configurations when windows are split vertically

We cannot change `fit-window-to-buffer' - it's used, for example, by
`resize-temp-buffer-window', not necessarily connected to splitting
windows at all.

> (the correct treating of horizontally split windows
> is already provided in dired-pop-to-buffer you sent recently)
> it will temporarily switch the current window to the upper window
> and call `enlarge-window' from the upper window, thus resizing
> the right border.

We'd have to do this within the function that splits the Dired window.
I recently rewrote `fit-window-to-buffer' but still don't understand it
completely - in particular the (enlarge-window 1) loop.  Within that
loop we'd have to continuously switch to the Dired window in order too
enlarge it.  I'd rather avoid such hairy switches.

martin

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