bug#33870: 27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable

[martin rudalics]

> Then two new functions will have consistent names:
>
> display-buffer-in-direction
> display-buffer-in-window

Just that the first is an action function while the second isn't.

>> 'from-window' is not bad.  Maybe also 'reference-window'.  We don't
>> use such a term in windmove.el.  There we just say that "WINDOW is the
>> window that movement is relative to".
>
> relative-window?

Not really good IMHO.

>>> Ok, like (direction . up) and all aliases.
>>
>> 'direction' should be OK then.
>
> Or 'dir' for short.

dir can be misread as directory.

martin