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bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows |
Date: |
Sun, 05 May 2019 23:40:10 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
Proced has dired-like UI. Dired smoothly displays a completion-like
confirmation window with filenames. ‘proced-with-processes-buffer’
even has a comment proudly declaring its compatibility with dired:
;; Analogous to `dired-pop-to-buffer'
;; Don't split window horizontally. (Bug#1806)
But in fact currently Proced can't handle more than 1 window on the same frame.
For example, compare these cases:
When there is only 1 window:
0. emacs -Q
1. M-x proced
2. C-x 1
3. d d x
then a list of *Marked Processes* is displayed in the bottom window
nicely like in Dired.
But when windows are split vertically:
0. emacs -Q
1. M-x proced
2. d d x
then a list of *Marked Processes* is displayed in the top window.
When windows are split horizontally:
0. emacs -Q
1. C-x 3
2. M-x proced
3. d d x
then the buffer *Marked Processes* is displayed in the left window.
Splitting to more windows cause it to display this buffer in random places.
This could be fixed by using something like:
(display-buffer "*Marked Processes*"
'((display-buffer-in-direction)
(direction . bottom)
(window . main)
(window-height . fit-window-to-buffer)))
The same would be useful also for Widget using e.g.
diff --git a/lisp/wid-edit.el b/lisp/wid-edit.el
index b9f98cdc4c..b077299c0e 100644
--- a/lisp/wid-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/wid-edit.el
@@ -252,7 +252,11 @@ widget-choose
(define-key map [?\M--] 'negative-argument)
(save-window-excursion
(let ((buf (get-buffer " widget-choose")))
- (fit-window-to-buffer (display-buffer buf))
+ (display-buffer
+ buf
+ '(display-buffer-in-direction
+ (direction main bottom)
+ (window-height . fit-window-to-buffer)))
(let ((cursor-in-echo-area t)
(arg 1))
(while (not value)
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/07
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/07
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/08
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/08
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/09
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/09
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/10
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/11
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/11
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/12