Re: Org-Capture Window Behavior

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Amol Vaidya <amolvaidya06@gmail.com> writes:

> (Apologies for replying to this twice Ihor, forgot to reply-all last time.)
>
> The linked video was from an emacs -q, so I have made no modifications to
> display-buffer-alist, and my understanding is that emacs -q is equivalent
> to an empty init file. If that's not correct, I'm not sure what kind of
> reproducer I need to be providing.

Yes, you are correct. emacs -q is an equivalent to the empty init file.
And what you get with emacs -q is also expected - the default window placement.

There is no bug in what you have shown - Org mode uses its defaults (we
need to have some).

> I am using Emacs 29.4. I am using org 9.7.11. I don't know what the
> protocol for submitting long code excerpts is to this mailing list, so I
> apologize if this is not the preferred method, but the output of
> org-submit-bug-report is given below. If there is other information I
> should provide, please let me know.

I am trying to figure out your report that Org mode does not respect
`display-buffer-alist'. Org mode, since Org 9.7, should respect user
customization in `display-buffer-alist'.

What I want from you is sufficient information for me to replicate the
problem you are seeing on my computer. Without such information, I
simply cannot diagnose the problem.

The usual way to produce such information is providing detailed steps,
starting from emacs -Q, that demonstrate the problem.

In your case, it is probably something like
1. emacs -Q
2. Evaluate (setq display-buffer-alist ...)
3. Run M-x org-capture ...
4. Observe display-buffer-alist not being respected

See also https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html

May you please provide such information for me?

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