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god yes please. "Will I get a new window? If so, where will it be?"

If I could have Emacs with Acme-style window management, that'd be perfect




this is emacs territory so we have infinite customization via the `display-buffer` primitive.

see https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/demystifying-emacs-wi... for more information.


unfortunately i cannot edit the previous post anymore. another _excellent_ resource is this article/video from "mr protesilaos stavrou" : https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-08-emacs-window-rule...

he goes by the moniker 'prot' and has tons of very very good emacs information (both on his website, and youtube). always worthwhile to check them out !

as someone would say, if you like that kind of thing, this the is kind of thing you will like :o)


Thanks for reminding me about this, I really need to dig into it and get some rules in place.


After years of vim and windows parkour, I started using Emacs, and while the windows management was a bit irritating at first, I made my peace with it and use them in a more focused manner and rely more on the buffer list. I use register if I need a particular configuration.

Vim feels like working on a moodboard while Emacs is more a study desk.


> while the windows management was a bit irritating at first

https://youtu.be/1-UIzYPn38s - Emacs: control where buffers are displayed (the 'display-buffer-alist')


I've been using Emacs for 25 years daily and this is still the thing that I think hasn't been really thought through. Yes there are hacks to mitigate that but there are still many rough edges with them.




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