Subject: bug#63455: 30.0.50; display-buffer-in-direction is always resizing

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 04:30:50 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe a good name for the new function would be
> 'fit-window-to-temp-buffer'?

Sorry to come up with this now, but: I think "temp-buffer" is a
misnomer here.  AFAIU it is used for *Help* buffers.  Those are not
more temporary than a lot of other buffers (doesn't the *Help* buffer
live more or less the whole session if you don't kill it?), and the way
Help buffers are displayed has not much or not only to do with how long
they live.

I always found that naming confusing.  It makes me think of
`with-temp-buffer', helper buffers, not of *Help*.  Do you find the
naming appropriate, having the use cases in mind?

Michael.