GNU bug report logs - #1806
dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #200 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:37:03 +0100

> Actually Dired already displays that list in the Dired window itself
> when the list is too large and fills the whole window.  But it would be
> bad to replace the Dired buffer with a small list with 2-3 filename lines
> and a lot of empty lines.  So it is better to display a separate window
> near the minibuffer without empty lines using `fit-window-to-buffer'.

Reasonable.  I suppose we should try to stay in the same "column" when
frames are divided horizontally.  Any fallback we should use when a
bottom window can't be split?  Split the selected one?

martin

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