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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:40:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #424 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:52:50 -0400
Juri Linkov wrote:

> In emacs -Q I see a strange window configuration after `M-x calendar
> RET' in a single wide window:
>
>     +-------------------------+        +------------+------------+
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |  ===>  |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     |                         |        |            | *Messages* |
>     |                         |        |            +------------+
>     |                         |        |            |            |
>     | *scratch*               |        | *scratch*  | *Calendar* |
>     +-------------------------+        +------------+------------+


That was the intended behaviour. If the frame is wide enough to split
horizontally, it is split horizontally. This both makes sense and
looks correct to me.

> I believe it was supposed to do rather:
>
>     +-------------------------+        +-------------------------+
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |  ===>  |                         |
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     |                         |        | *scratch*               |
>     |                         |        +-------------------------+
>     |                         |        |                         |
>     | *scratch*               |        | *Calendar*              |
>     +-------------------------+        +-------------------------+

It will do this if the frame is not wider than split-width-threshold.



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