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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: 'org-switch-to-buffer-other-window' prevents customisation of
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:54:01 +0200
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Hello,

Hassan Dar <h@hassandar.com> writes:

> As seen in the following StackExchange questions:
>
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14817/how-to-control-where-the-org-todo-keywords-buffer-displays
>
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17112/prevent-org-todo-pop-up-window-from-displaying-in-new-frame-dedicated-window
>
> The org-no-popups macro (which is leveraged by '
> org-switch-to-buffer-other-window' let-binds key variables such as
> "display-buffer-alist" to 'nil'.
>
> This ultimately prevents a user from
> customising pop-ups generated by org in the same way they would with
> other pop-up windows.

I'm not a big fan of Org's opinionated way to handle windows either.
However, couldn't you use `display-buffer-overriding-action' in this
case? It is checked before `display-buffer-alist'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou