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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #505 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:35:17 +0300

>>> I noticed another case with weird behaviour.  Please confirm is this
>>> intentional or not.
>>
>> Well, not so much intentional, as just, this is what pop-to-buffer
>> does. But, this is no longer the default behaviour - please try the
>> current CVS.
>
> Hmm, tried the current CVS and see no improvement.  I mean I still see
> this default behaviour:

I think the problem is the lack of the necessary primitive in window.el.
Should it exist, any mode could use it with a simple function call
that creates a new window below the current one even in a wide-frame
configuration.  I remember Martin proposed a patch during the code freeze,
but currently can't find it.

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

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