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25.0.50; Feature request: Alternative split-window-sensibly functions

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20189: 25.0.50;
 Feature request: Alternative split-window-sensibly functions
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:47:28 +0100

> With your suggestions, I finally came up with this which seems to work
> exactly as I like it:
[...]
> (defun th/split-window-sensibly (window)
[...]
>        ;; Reuse the LRU window
>        (get-lru-window)))))

If the last form gets executed, you reuse a window.  Suppose it's reused
for showing completions.  Then selecting a completion will, as a
side-effect, delete that window instead of showing the previously shown
buffer in it.  You probably won't like that.

martin

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