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From: | Pierre-Yves Luyten |
Subject: | Re: Documenting buffer display |
Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:26:43 +0200 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.3.7 |
Le 2018-10-23 10:58, martin rudalics a écrit :
An earlier approach to provide such behavior was to add functions like 'find-dired-other-window' and 'find-dired-other-frame' maybe with appropriate key bindings. The shortcomings of that approach are: (1) The number of predefined functions to display a buffer is usually tripled. (2) The user may have to memorize key bindings for three functions instead of one. (3) These three functions still do not cover the entire spectrum of behaviors users want like showing the buffer on a specific side of the selected window or frame.
Looks to me above shortcomings list assumes user always want (1) to invoke the same behavior, ie always use other-frame or always other-windows, or (2) to customize behavior regarding specific buffers (buffer names).
While i rather assume user wants to invoke specific action based on the context. for example while working on email i would invoke other-frame ; while working on markdown i would most often call other-window, both for the same bookmark or the same file.
Regards Pierre-Yves
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