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From: | Justin Burkett |
Subject: | bug#24828: 26.0.50; Renaming of display-buffer-in-major-side-window broke which-key.el |
Date: | Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:31:12 -0400 |
> I wasn't aware that that function was internal, since it appears to
> function like the other display-buffer actions.
Unfortunately so. It was my fault to pretend otherwise.
> If I remember right that
> code was written by a contributor, and I don't remember the motivation for
> choosing that one. If it really is internal then I will investigate
> changing to the proper method when I have some more time.
I see. The problem is that the structure on the right
;; +-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
;; | regular window | | regular window |
;; | | +------------+------------+
;; +------------+------------+ --> | side-win 1 | side-win 2 |
;; | side-win 1 | side-win 2 | |------------+------------|
;; | | | | which-key window |
;; +------------+------------+ +------------+------------+
was never really supported. I initially wanted to allow that but later
found out that I cannot reliably split side windows in both directions.
It might work with Emacs 24 in a few basic use cases but will surely
break with more complicated setups. So you essentially will have to
fall back on
;; +-------------------------+
;; | regular window |
;; | |
;; +------+-------+----------|
;; | side-| side- | which-key|
;; | win-1| win-2 | window |
;; +------+-------+----------+
or
;; +-------------------------+
;; | regular window |
;; | |
;; +----------- +------------|
;; | side-win-1 | which-key |
;; | | window |
;; +------------+------------+
sooner or later anyway. For this, ‘which-key’ should either supply a
side window slot value for customization and/or tell the user how to
customize ‘display-buffer-alist’ for displaying the which-key window.
Then the user can decide which windows she wants which-key to share with
(the completions window looks like a good candidate because it's
ephemeral too).
Note that side windows were initially designed as more persistent but I
can easily see that the ‘which-key’ use case might come in pretty handy
too. Hence it should be possible to make the side-win-1 and side-win-2
windows temporarily very small in order to give the which-key window
sufficient space.
>From what I've seen, ‘which-key’ is a fine mode, very neatly written.
It should be in ELPA. In any case, keep up the good work.
martin
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