bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

[Glenn Morris]

martin rudalics wrote:

> It could show *scratch* twice.

Yes, it could, easily.

> Ideally, the "other" window would not be created but a "vertical"
> calendar layout used instead ;-) Or show all months of the
> respective year (maybe in some dimmed face) to make use of the
> available space.

This is something I would like to see, but it is a lot of work.

> With the current layout I don't see much sense doing a horizontal
> split at all.

Because it makes zero sense to have a calendar wider than 80 columns.
The space is always wasted.