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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: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:03:22 +0200

>> How would we handle the case where `window--try-to-split-window' fails
>> for the selected window and some other window (like the frame's bottom
>> window) gets split?
>
> This case is exceptional, but maybe handling of the `fit-window-to-buffer'
> specifier could be added to some other actions where it makes sense?
>
>>> (setq display-buffer-alist '(("Marked Files" .
>>>                               (display-buffer-below-selected
>>>                                (fit-window-to-buffer . nil)))))
>> And how would they handle the frame bottom window case sketched above?
>
> With (setq display-buffer-alist
>            '(("Marked Files" . (nil (fit-window-to-buffer . nil)))))

I see.  My knowledge of `display-buffer-alist' is certainly much worse
than yours.  Could you patch this along these lines?  I think Chong will
agree, if we only can get rid of the `temp-buffer-resize-regexps' stuff.

martin

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