GNU bug report logs - #70213
Info-mode side window fit-window-to-buffer issue

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Message #27 received at 70213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 70213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70213: Info-mode side window fit-window-to-buffer issue
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:58:27 -0700

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:04:28 -0700 Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for
> GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors"
> <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> tags 70213 notabug
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:57:13 -0700
>>>> From:  Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>>>
>>>> With emacs -Q on 29, evaluate:
>>>>
>>>> (setq display-buffer-alist
>>>>       '(((derived-mode . Info-mode)
>>>>          display-buffer-in-side-window
>>>>          (side . right)
>>>>          (window-width . fit-window-to-buffer))))
>>>>
>>>> Then press C-h i
>>>>
>>>> Expected: Info-mode buffer pops up in right side window.
>>>>
>>>> Actual: Info-mode buffer pops up in full frame.
>>>>
>>>> At this point, pressing C-h i once more does open a right side window.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't been able to reproduce this this issue with any other mode.
>>>
>>> I'm not interested in fixing this: Info is not intended to be run in a
>>> side window.  For starters, the text of an Info file is not meant to
>>> be displayed in narrow windows, and will look ugly at best.
>>>
>>> Don't do that!
>>
>> Okay, closing now.  What I had been doing is setting the side window with
>> to 80 columns, which is plenty of space for most Info files.
>
> FWIW, I get the expected result with your recipe on master (GNU/Linux,
> Gtk3; I don't have emacs-29 at hand to test).

According to the issue that Juri linked to (bug#68081), this issue was
resolved on master.  Was your Emacs build since January 6 (since
d3a4fe5694f7bd1a09546d67d2cddc0f444d41ca )?

Thank you!

Joseph

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