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Feature request: add variable for automatically selecting the apropos window

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From: SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Feature request: add variable for automatically selecting the apropos
 window
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:02:05 +0800

Feature request for "apropos.el": add a variable for automatically
selecting the apropos window when it is shown.

Please add an "apropos-window-select" variable that is analogous to
help.el's "help-window-select".

Message #8 received at 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46034: Feature request: add variable for automatically
 selecting the apropos window
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:29:08 +0200

> Feature request for "apropos.el": add a variable for automatically
> selecting the apropos window when it is shown.
>
> Please add an "apropos-window-select" variable that is analogous to
> help.el's "help-window-select".

I don't know why there is this too specific option 'help-window-select'.
It seems there are many other windows that needs to be customized
to select them.  Wouldn't it be more general solution to use
display-buffer-alist, maybe with something like:

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (post-display . select-window)))

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46034: Feature request: add variable for automatically
 selecting the apropos window
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:04:23 +0100

> I don't know why there is this too specific option 'help-window-select'.

It was added a couple of years before 'display-buffer-alist' was invented.

> It seems there are many other windows that needs to be customized
> to select them.  Wouldn't it be more general solution to use
> display-buffer-alist, maybe with something like:
>
> (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (post-display . select-window)))

I'd prefer

(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (select-window . t)))

but might change my mind as soon as you tell us what other values for
post-display you have in mind.

martin

Message #14 received at 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#46034: Feature request: add variable for automatically
 selecting the apropos window
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:14:12 +0200

>> It seems there are many other windows that needs to be customized
>> to select them.  Wouldn't it be more general solution to use
>> display-buffer-alist, maybe with something like:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (post-display . select-window)))
>
> I'd prefer
>
> (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*Help\\*" nil (select-window . t)))
>
> but might change my mind as soon as you tell us what other values for
> post-display you have in mind.

Maybe 'shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer' like in bug#45688
or maybe better to use an option like 'after-display-buffer-function',
I'm not sure.

Message #17 received at 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46034 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46034: Feature request: add variable for automatically
 selecting the apropos window
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:34:52 +0200

SB <progscriptclone <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Feature request for "apropos.el": add a variable for automatically
> selecting the apropos window when it is shown.
>
> Please add an "apropos-window-select" variable that is analogous to
> help.el's "help-window-select".

I think it would make sense to make the apropos just respect
`help-window-select', so I've done that in Emacs 29.

-- 
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