bug#70213: Info-mode side window fit-window-to-buffer issue

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:34:11 -0700 Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in> 
wrote:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:58:27 -0700 Joseph Turner
>> <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>>>> FWIW, I get the expected result with your recipe on master (GNU/Linux,
>>>> Gtk3; I don't have emacs-29 at hand to test).
>>>
>>> According to the issue that Juri linked to (bug#68081), this issue was
>>> resolved on master.
>>
>> Yes, I saw Juri's post after I sent mine; I had missed that bug report.
>>
>>>                      Was your Emacs build since January 6 (since
>>> d3a4fe5694f7bd1a09546d67d2cddc0f444d41ca )?
>>
>> Yep, I'm currently at
>> 09f381d70d8..: Michael Albinus 2024-03-31 Fix wildcard signals in dbusbind.c
>
> The attached patch fixes this issue, but more would need to be done for
> fit-window-to-buffer to be a meaningful value in display-buffer-alist,
> since navigating between info nodes doesn't cause the window to resize.

I'm confused: by "I get the expected result with your recipe on master"
I meant the Info buffer appears in the window on the right after one
`C-h i', and I confirmed that my build contains the January 6 fix.  Are
you saying that does not work for you and you need the patch you posted
instead?  (I haven't tried that patch.)

Steve Berman