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Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers
From: |
Arthur Miller |
Subject: |
Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:13:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>>>> If you fit the window showing *Help* to its buffer, there is no room
>>>> left.
>>>
>>> It would be nice to make it fit to N lines in height, and C columns in
>>> width,
>>> i.e. to make it fit to certain size.
>>
>> Who would specify that "certain size"?
>
> In bug#45688 I proposed on displaying the Help buffer to call a hook
> like temp-buffer-window-setup-hook or temp-buffer-window-show-hook
> with the default value shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer or
> fit-window-to-buffer. Then users can customize it and remove
> resizing that will make it more useful for anyone who needs
> to reuse the Help window to visit source code.
That sounds like useful approach. Something like:
(defcustom help-buffer-default-height 25
"The default height of a help-buffer window."
:type 'fixnum
:group 'help
:version "28.1") <-- :-)
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, (continued)
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Gregor Zattler, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers,
Arthur Miller <=
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/22
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/22
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/22
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/23
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/23
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/26
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/22
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/23
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20