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Customizable window resizing

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 51062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51062: Customizable window resizing
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:01:43 +0200

>> The problem is rather that 'display-buffer' wasn't used in the first
>> place to show the buffer.  Two things we could try to cover buffers that
>> are shown via 'set-window-buffer' are
>>
>> - Invent a new buffer-local variable, say 'inhibit-temp-buffer-resize'
>>    with the obvious meaning.
>>
>> - Invent a new window parameter 'inhibit-temp-buffer-resize' with the
>>    obvious meaning.
>
> Earlier I proposed to add a new hook whose default value contains
> shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer, so it can easily be removed from the hook.

What was that hook called?  I think we first have to decide whether we
want to inhibit such shrinks and fits for any display operation or only
those administrated by 'display-buffer'.  Then we'd either install that
inhibiting thing via 'window--display-buffer' (where we work on alist so
we can decide who overrides whom) or directly in 'fit-window-to-buffer'
(where we cannot discriminate any more whether an application very
urgently wants to impose its behavior and we always rely on the user's
setting).

martin

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