Re: Bug: org-no-popups disregards display-buffer-fallback-action [9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

Daniel Kraus <daniel@kraus.my> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Monday, 15 Nov 2021 at 00:03, dal-blazej@onenetbeyond.org wrote:
>>> So if we want to make org cooperate with window.el we must ban theses
>>> functions and instead delegate the window management with calls to
>>> proper display functions.
>>
>> I agree completely.  One of my bug-bears is org-capture which I often
>> use during meetings to take notes or create TODO items.  Typically, the
>> org capture window covers my Teams buffer (I use exwm as my window
>> manager...) which is rather annoying.
>>
>> I did play with display-buffer-alist but it seemed to not be able to
>> take control of some of org's windows.  Everything else I do in Emacs is
>> nicely managed through that alist.
>
> Just want to mention that I would also really appreciate this.
> I asked for it ~4 years ago on this list 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-12/msg00241.html
> and it also comes up from time to time in other places
> like this Reddit thread 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ic4u1m/stop_emacs_from_hiding_other_windows_when/

I believe that `display-buffer-alist' is fully obeyed now by Org mode (on
main branch). A few exceptions are when `org-agenda-window-setup' or/and
`org-src-window-setup' are customized to non-default value - then Org
does what the user asked for.

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