Ah well. I find the new way jarring, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone
else, and as it's a one-line (2 character!) change for me I think I can
carry the diff in my init file for now. In any case it's a small issue I
think.An honour to find myself in disagreement with the org-founder!

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:47 AM Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> I made this change, because I found the previous way jarring.  The window
> with the selection information showed up in different places depending on
> what the current window setup is. With the new implementation, the info
> window is always in the same predictable place.  After the selection is
> done, the old window setup is restored to exactly what it was....
>
> Carsten
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 8:46 PM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've recently noticed a slightly frustrating behavour on the part of
>> org-todo that I think is new and maybe was introduced in mid-August with
>>
>> f1c030bed54737319aeb1d592e3340d6a48cea3a
>>
>> In a split frame,calling org-todo with org-use-fast-todo-selection
>> enabled, ~C-c C-t~ now calls ~delete-other-windows~ before popping up the
>> org-todo keywords window.  Is this necessary? I find this behaviour
>> visually confusing and distracting, and a slowdown to my workflow.  Would
>> it make sense to introduce some kind of defcustom for this? For now I'm
>> just commenting out line 10614 of org.el, but if others want to be able to
>> customize the behaviour I will submit a patch.
>>
>> Maybe there's a reason delete-other-window is necessary, but i don't see
>> it in the commit message nor immediately in the other parts of this
>> otherwise very well-documented commit
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>