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kai2nenobu / guide-key

Guide following keys to an input key sequence automatically and dynamically in Emacs.
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[Proposal] use window-purpose instead of popwin #40

Closed bmag closed 8 years ago

bmag commented 9 years ago

Hi, I wrote a package called window-purpose that gives a good control over where buffers are displayed. I thought you may be interested use it instead of popwin. I suggest this because of two issues, one posted on guide-key and one posted on Spacemacs.

Issue 1: apparently, sometimes when the screen is split, guide-key's window is too small to display all the available keys. Using window-purpose doesn't have this problem. You can see a visual illustration in a PR that I opened against Spacemacs and will probably get rejected (it was suggested there to make the change in guide-key instead of Spacemacs).

Issue 2: @paroxyzm asks if guide-key can be displayed in another frame instead of a window. With window-purpose, popping a frame instead of a window is fairly easy.

Tell me if you're interested in this proposal or if you have any questions.

tcw165 commented 9 years ago

How about using helm. Is it possible?

bmag commented 9 years ago

I don't understand, what do you mean?

stardiviner commented 9 years ago

+1

clawoflight commented 5 years ago

Can we reopen this?

bmag commented 5 years ago

Why bother? The maintainer hasn't been active in forever. Switch to which-key, it does more than guide-key and is of higher quality.