GNU bug report logs - #63455
30.0.50; display-buffer-in-direction is always resizing

Previous Next

Full log

Message #59 received at 63455 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 63455 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#63455: 30.0.50; display-buffer-in-direction is always resizing
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 04:30:50 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> 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.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.