Re: display-buffer-alist actions

[Garjola Dindi]

On Thu 25-Feb-2021 at 17:25:15 +01, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
wrote: 
> On Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021 at 20:52, Joost Kremers wrote:
>> Yes, it's the easiest thing to grok. I've found Protesilaos Stavrou's
>> comments and Youtube video on the topic helpful:
>
> Indeed.  His videos are excellent.

On the same topic, David Wilson recently did a video explaining how to
customize display-buffer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H2nU0rsUMY

And just last Friday, he did a live coding session showing how to write
custom display action functions (starting at 34'30"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqNhJsVmVUg

>
>> What you could do, however, is write your own display-buffer function,
>> which checks the frame dimensions and calls
>> `display-buffer-side-window` with either `(side .  left)` or `(side
>> . bottom)`.
>
> Yes!  Very simple and, in hindsight, kind of obvious <blush>.  Thank
> you.  I have now done this and it works perfectly.

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