Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame

[Eric Abrahamsen]

"N. Jackson" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Eric,
>
> Replying on the BBDB mailing list as this seems to be a BBDB bug (or
> feature?).
>
> At 09:38 -0700 on Thursday 2018-09-13, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> I haven't used BBDB for a while, but I could have sworn there was
>> someplace where you can put a predicate callable that could return the
>> window to split. I think it was the HORIZ-P argument to
>> `bbdb-pop-up-window' that can be a function (it should return t when it
>> is called with the article window as an argument), but now I don't
>> remember how the HORIZ-P predicate gets passed in.
>
> Yes, looking at bbdb.el, there is a `horiz-p' argument to
> `bbdb-pop-up-window' which it gets passed from
> `bbdb-display-records', but the latter function never sets it but
> merely passes it through from it's argument list. And it does not
> seem to ever be set in any call to `bbdb-display-records'.
>
> So maybe `horiz-p' is a solution, but it will not work in current
> BBDB. (Looking at BBDB 3.2 from GNU Elpa).

This is the right place to raise the question. I just remember pretty
clearly having a lambda predicate that found the Gnus article window and
returned that, or something to that effect. This was a while ago.