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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, 12 May 2019 22:17:16 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> >> 'bottommost' is too ugly word ;)
>> >
>> > There's nothing ugly about it, IMO. We already use it in a few places
>> > in the manuals.
>>
>> Using bottommost as superlative of bottom sounds as weird as using
>> bestest instead of best.
>
> You can use "bottom" if that fits.
Currently the 'side' arg of display-buffer-in-side-window
uses such repertoire of possible values:
left, right, top, bottom
whereas the proposed display-buffer-in-direction
for relative window positioning:
left, right, above/up, below/down
Since 'top' and 'bottom' are precluded for relative positioning anyway,
'top' and 'bottom' are free to be used for absolute positioning:
leftmost, rightmost, top, bottom
If the goal is to try to achieve consistency with
display-buffer-in-side-window, then it makes more sense
to think about using 'leftmost' and 'rightmost' in
display-buffer-in-side-window, but maybe there is no need
for such consistency.
Using 'bottom' and 'below' will also provide backward-compatibility of
names with display-buffer-at-bottom and display-buffer-below-selected.
There is also display-buffer--maybe-at-bottom, but I need help
from Martin because I don't understand how to replace
display-buffer--maybe-at-bottom using display-buffer-in-direction.
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- 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 <=
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/19
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/19
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/20
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/20
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/21
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, Juri Linkov, 2019/05/21
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/22
- bug#35592: Use display-buffer-in-direction for completion-like windows, martin rudalics, 2019/05/19