Re: help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame?

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 08:57, Christopher Howard
<christopher@librehacker.com> wrote:

> Hi, use Emacs with multiple frames, one on each monitor, and typically one 
> window per frame. Now that I have lots of frame space, I find it annoying 
> when functions like (describe-function) split the frame I am on. I am 
> wondering if it is possible to change something so that functions like that 
> instead display the buffer in a different frame.
>
> Looking for someplace to start, I dove down into `describe-function' source 
> code and eventually found myself trying to hack temp-buffer-window-show

You either went too deep or not deep enough ;)

The place you want is called display-buffer-alist and it’s a variable
containing rules for activating various windows. See the manual and
one of several tutorials on it, like this one:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/demystifying-emacs-window-manager