Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame

[martin rudalics]

> Can `display-buffer-alist' mentioned by Stefan do that (at least: in
> principle)?  I looked at its documentation in the elisp manual (not
> the Emacs manual!), and I could not figure out how to use this
> variable to achieve the goals discussed here.  Does
> `display-buffer-alist' provide the same functionality as the Gnus
> code discussed in this thread?

The purpose of 'display-buffer-alist' is to set up a window for one
single buffer.  It already fails miserably to make sure that two
buffers get displayed simultaneously as the thread of Bug#32607 shows.

martin