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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: Wed, 08 May 2019 22:32:10 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> Only a small plea: could you please add an alias ‘(direction . bottom)’
>> as a shorthand for ‘(direction . below) (window . main)’
>>
>> Similarly:
>> top = (direction . above) (window . main)
>> bottom = (direction . below) (window . main)
>> leftmost = (direction . left) (window . main)
>> rightmost = (direction . right) (window . main)
>
> Patch attached.

Thanks!  I tested it, and it works nicely.

> But notice that these semantically clash with what you
> earlier wanted for 'split-window':
>
>                   ((eq side 'above) 'top)
>                   ((eq side 'below) 'bottom)

I remember that recently you added these aliases:

  up -> above
  down -> below

that fits well into this scheme.

But I don't know about

  above -> top
  below -> bottom

These are some earlier additions.  Is there a problem with these aliases?





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