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* Bug: org-no-popups disregards display-buffer-fallback-action [9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)]
@ 2021-11-10  7:50 Jan Seeger via General discussions about Org-mode.
  2021-11-10 10:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
  2021-11-13 13:15 ` Bug: org-no-popups disregards display-buffer-fallback-action 9.4.6 Max Nikulin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Jan Seeger via General discussions about Org-mode. @ 2021-11-10  7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Hello!

I'm trying to make multi-frame emacsing nicer, and I encountered what I
consider a bug with the `org-no-popups` macro in `org-macs.el`.

`org-no-popups` tries to surpress the creation of new frames via setting
`pop-up-frames` and `display-buffer-alist` to nil temporarily. This does
not take `display-buffer-fallback-action` into account, which is the
preferred way of making Emacs pop up new frames (or not, as the case may
be). When the fallback variable is set, code run inside `org-no-popups`
still creates new popups, which causes functions such as
`org-insert-link` to fail, or at least act *very* confusingly.

The preferred way of overriding the behavior of `display-buffer` for
localized Emacs code seems to be the variable
`display-buffer-overriding-action`.

Changing the definition of `org-no-popups` to

```
(defmacro org-no-popups (&rest body)
  "Suppress popup windows and evaluate BODY."
  `(let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-pop-up-window)))
     ,@body))
```

correctly makes org pop up windows instead of frames.

Please contact me if you have any questions!

Best regards,
Jan Seeger

---

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0)
Package: Org mode version 9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)


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* Bug: org-no-popups disregards display-buffer-fallback-action [9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)]
@ 2021-11-10  7:50 Jan Seeger via General discussions about Org-mode.
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Jan Seeger via General discussions about Org-mode. @ 2021-11-10  7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Hello!

I'm trying to make multi-frame emacsing nicer, and I encountered what I
consider a bug with the `org-no-popups` macro in `org-macs.el`.

`org-no-popups` tries to surpress the creation of new frames via setting
`pop-up-frames` and `display-buffer-alist` to nil temporarily. This does
not take `display-buffer-fallback-action` into account, which is the
preferred way of making Emacs pop up new frames (or not, as the case may
be). When the fallback variable is set, code run inside `org-no-popups`
still creates new popups, which causes functions such as
`org-insert-link` to fail, or at least act *very* confusingly.

The preferred way of overriding the behavior of `display-buffer` for
localized Emacs code seems to be the variable
`display-buffer-overriding-action`.

Changing the definition of `org-no-popups` to

```
(defmacro org-no-popups (&rest body)
  "Suppress popup windows and evaluate BODY."
  `(let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-pop-up-window)))
     ,@body))
```

correctly makes org pop up windows instead of frames.

Please contact me if you have any questions!

Best regards,
Jan Seeger

---

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0)
Package: Org mode version 9.4.6 (9.4.6-13-g4be129-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210920/)


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