Subject: Re: bug#33870: 27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:14:32 +0100

> Then two new functions will have consistent names:
 >
 > display-buffer-in-direction
 > display-buffer-in-window

Just that the first is an action function while the second isn't.

 >> 'from-window' is not bad.  Maybe also 'reference-window'.  We don't
 >> use such a term in windmove.el.  There we just say that "WINDOW is the
 >> window that movement is relative to".
 >
 > relative-window?

Not really good IMHO.

 >>> Ok, like (direction . up) and all aliases.
 >>
 >> 'direction' should be OK then.
 >
 > Or 'dir' for short.

dir can be misread as directory.

martin