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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

Exactly.  So for the purpose of "orderly setting up
and saving compositions of windows", it's of no use, but in the specific
case of BBDB (which just needs to (temporarily) pop up a single buffer),
it should be sufficient.


        Stefan