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bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#64029: 30.0.50; info-lookup should respect display-buffer-alist |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:07:33 +0300 |
> Cc: rs@ralph-schleicher.de
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:02:56 +0000
>
> Hello :)
>
> `info-lookup' (from info-look.el) does not respect `display-buffer-alist'.
>
> To reproduce an example, open some buffer in fundamental-mode, evaluate
>
> (setq
> display-buffer-alist
> '((t (display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-same-window))))
>
> and type
>
> C-h S c-mode RET sin RET
>
> We'd expect the *info* buffer to be shown in the current window. Instead, a
> new window is created. This is because info-look.el does neither call
> display-buffer, nor does it take display-buffer-alist into account by itself:
Thanks.
You should be able to get what you want by customizing the option
info-lookup-other-window-flag to the nil value.
I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect every command to use
display-buffer or its family for every window it displays.