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30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
Subject: bug#64029: closed (Re: bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should
 respect display-buffer-alist)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:49:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 64029-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rs <at> ralph-schleicher.de
Subject: Re: bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect
 display-buffer-alist
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:43:30 +0000

2023-06-13 14:07 eliz <at> gnu.org:

> You should be able to get what you want by customizing the 
> option info-lookup-other-window-flag to the nil value.
>
> I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect every command to use 
> display-buffer or its family for every window it displays.

Thanks, Eli. In that case I'll just close this issue. Especially 
since I'm satisfied with info-lookup-other-window-flag. Sorry for 
the noise. :)

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From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:02:56 +0000

Hello :)

`info-lookup' (from info-look.el) does not respect `display-buffer-alist'.

To reproduce an example, open some buffer in fundamental-mode, evaluate

   (setq
     display-buffer-alist
     '((t (display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-same-window))))

and type

   C-h S c-mode RET sin RET

We'd expect the *info* buffer to be shown in the current window. Instead, a new window is created. This is because info-look.el does neither call display-buffer, nor does it take display-buffer-alist into account by itself:

   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/info-look.el?h=605414d018da47f99dec5019142f584b6eb174c8#n395

Kindly
Mekeor

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