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Info-mode side window fit-window-to-buffer issue

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From: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, "70213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <70213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#70213: Info-mode side window fit-window-to-buffer issue
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:36:34 -0700

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> more would need to be done for
>> fit-window-to-buffer to be a meaningful value
>> in display-buffer-alist, since navigating between
>> info nodes doesn't cause the window to resize.
>
> (Caveat: I'm not following this thread.)
>
> In case it helps, in info+.el I fit the
> frame to the Info buffer when user option
> `Info-fit-frame-flag' is non-nil and the
> frame has only the Info window.
>
> I do that in my versions of `Info-search'
> and `Info-find-node-2'.  That's all that's
> needed.
>
> Likely the same two places would suffice
> for what you're doing.  (But again, I'm
> not following the thread - just guessing
> what you're doing.)
>
> (Dunno why something as general as
> `display-buffer-alist' would need to be
> involved, just to resize Info nodes.)
>
> Hopefully you too will make the behavior
> conditional on a user option.
>
> HTH.

Thanks!  Good to know.

I'm willing to leave the current behavior as-is.

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