Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Org 9.5: org-goto UI seems broken

[Marco Wahl]

Thanks Eric and Max!

> On Wednesday, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:23, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> Does someone have settings that pins help buffer to particular
>> window/frame of location in a frame (e.g. bottom of "sidebar")?
>
> This is what I use, which is slightly more complex because I have a wide
> landscape monitor and a tall portrait one and want different behaviour
> in each:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun esf/display-buffer-in-side-window (buffer alist)
>     (let ((fw (/ 80.0 (frame-width))))
>       (display-buffer-in-side-window buffer
>                                      (if (> (frame-width) 120)
>                                          (list (cons 'window-width fw)
>                                                '(side . left)
>                                                '(slot . 0))
>                                        '((window-height . 0.25)
>                                          (side . bottom)
>                                          (slot . 0))))))
>   (setq display-buffer-alist
>         '(("^\\*Async Shell Command*" . (display-buffer-no-window))
>           ("^magit-[a-z]+: " . (esf/display-buffer-in-side-window))
>           ("\\*\\(Backtrace\\|Compile-Log\\|DICT 
> .*\\|grep\\|[Hh]elp.*\\|Messages\\|Occur\\|tex-shell\\|vc-\\(diff\\|change-log\\)\\|Warnings\\|WoMan
>  .*\\)\\*"
>            (esf/display-buffer-in-side-window))))
> #+end_src
>
> This doesn't pin to a specific frame but does make the pop-ups appear in
> the same place always in each respectively frame.  By the way, I use
> exwm so I have one frame per monitor, full screen, generally.

Thanks for the example and the implied teaching!

I experimented with the use of display-buffer-alist and the org-goto UI.
E.g. with the config:

    (defun experiment/202110141141 (buffer alist)
      (display-buffer-in-side-window
       buffer
       (list '(window-width . 23)
             '(side . right)
             '(slot . 0))))

    (setq display-buffer-alist
          '(("\\*Org Help\\*" . (experiment/202110141141))))

AFAICS this has an effect for org-goto.  The user can control the
appearance of the org-goto UI.

BTW I think the name *Org Help* for the UI buffer could be better.

Since org-goto in main is still broken I'll commit the fix for org-goto
which kicks out the use of the macro org-no-popups (but not the macro
itself since it's used elsewhere AFAICS.)

Max, Ihor!  If you see the necessity of refinement please keep going!  


Best regards,
-- 
Marco