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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #245 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: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:13:24 +0200

> This might be good for post-23.1, but the reported annoyance is still here,
> so we need just to restore the old 22.1 behavior of `dired-pop-to-buffer'.
>
> Martin, do you think this is possible without reverting `dired-pop-to-buffer'
> to pre-December 2008 state, and making necessary changes in window.el
> thus providing the same behavior that was in `dired-pop-to-buffer'?

`dired-pop-to-buffer' could bind `split-window-preferred-function' to a
function that tries to always split the selected window instead of
whatever window was chosen by `display-buffer' but that would override
any user customizations of `split-window-preferred-function'.

We could also provide a variable `split-window-preferred-window', nil by
default, which the window choosing mechanism of `display-buffer' would
respect if bound to some live window.  And we could turn this variable
into an option (now or later).

martin

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