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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:33:34 +0300 |
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>> I have made window minimum heights (aka `split-height-threshold') alist
>> members although, as Juri mentioned earlier, these are actually part of
>> the enabling condition (or the action). Where really put these?
>
> The CONDITION is only concerned with the buffer to display, so things
> like minimum window height is not part of the CONDITION. It definitely
> belongs in the ALIST.
I agree that window minimum heights would be too fine-grained
for the CONDITION part. It's better suitable for the ALIST.
I think that important part of design is functional decomposition
to implement minimal building blocks that can be easily combined
to define a buffer-displaying behavior.
To continue this discussion, I propose to think about the complexity
of implementing a `display-buffer-near-minibuffer' function.
How easy it would be to do by using existing functions
(and ignoring `display-buffer-alist' awhile)?
I imagine an algorithm like this:
1. Try to reuse a window dedicated to the buffer to be displayed.
2. Try to reuse a window at the bottom with the width of the selected frame.
Alternatively, provide a parameter for the ALIST to skip this step.
Also provide a parameter to resize the reused window.
3. Otherwise, taking into account min-height try to create a new window
with the specified height at the bottom of the selected frame.
4. Otherwise, reuse any available window on the selected frame.
Provide a parameter to define the order of different methods:
largest, lru, rightmost, etc.
5. Alternatively, with preference of using frames, try to find
a dedicated frame. Otherwise, create a new frame with
specified parameters.
Is it possible to write that now using simple function calls?
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, (continued)
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/09
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/11
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/11
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/16
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/17
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/18
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/28
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/29
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/29