Re: address@hidden: display-buffer change]

[Chong Yidong]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> I've tried to contact the author but he didn't respond.
>
>> Was the change made deliberately?
>
> I don't know when and why the change was made but it implements
> the behavior documented as for Emacs 21 and 22.  The user can
> change the behavior by customizing split-height-threshold.

I concur: AFAICT, Emacs behaves as documented.  I think we should
consider this bug resolved.

>> Split an emacs frame in two windows showing buffers A and B:
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      A      |
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      B      |
>>   +-------------+
>>While in the lower window, run
>>  (set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t)
>>Now, in the upper window, run
>>    (display-buffer "C")
>>In Emacs 21, this will be the result:
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      A      |
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      C      |
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      B      |
>>   +-------------+
>>In Emacs 22, this will be the result:
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      C      |
>>   +-------------+
>>   |      B      |
>>   +-------------+