GNU bug report logs - #36859
Customizable fit-window-to-buffer

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Message #26 received at 36859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36859: Customizable fit-window-to-buffer
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:23:32 +0200

> In case of an asynchronous command like vc-log and vc-diff
> postponing display-buffer might be undesirable because
> their output might be useful to see while still incomplete.

Agreed.

> OTOH, the current situation is not perfect either:
> when an asynchronous command finishes, it unexpectedly
> forces the window resizing.

Then as a rule let's avoid such resizing.  I doubt that anyone really
wanted it.  It's merely the fact that functions like
`shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer' were written that people
started to use them wherever applicable ...

martin

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