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deer causes helm-descbinds to open in a new frame #111

Closed alphapapa closed 8 years ago

alphapapa commented 8 years ago

When I run helm-descbinds from a ranger buffer, the Helm buffer is opened in a new frame. The buffer in the new frame is showing the helm-descbinds content, but it's not in Helm mode; it's a plain buffer that can be edited.

In *Messages* I see this:

Ranger window was overwritten. Redirecting window to new frame

Thanks for your work on ranger.

punassuming commented 8 years ago

@alphapapa, thanks for the comment, but this does not happen for me. Do you have a window manager running like popwin?

alphapapa commented 8 years ago

Hm, that's strange. AFAIK the only thing like that I have is shackle, but I've been using it for years and it doesn't cause problems with anything else.

punassuming commented 8 years ago

Yeah, I have seen problems with shackle as well. Ranger is trying to control the window placement and so is shackle. I will look into how to nake them work together

alphapapa commented 8 years ago

I'm sorry, I just realized, it's deer that does this, not ranger. I used deer in a new Emacs profile and reproduced it. It happens without shackle.

It also causes packages-list-packages to open in a new frame.

punassuming commented 8 years ago

@alphapapa, =( I still don't get it in either. deer especially should not be causing this behaviour. Even with shackle-mode on. Can you tell me which version of ranger.el you have running. Are you using melpa-stable or melpa?

alphapapa commented 8 years ago

I just made a fresh MELPA sandbox and installed ranger and helm-descbinds from MELPA, so they should be the current versions of both. Then I ran deer, then helm-descbinds, and it opened Helm in a new frame saying Ranger window was overwritten. Redirecting window to new frame. I'm using Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu Trusty, package version 24.4+1-5.

punassuming commented 8 years ago

@alphapapa, I checked the helm-descbinds package and found that it is basically clearing all windows with the default setting. I have found that setting (setq helm-descbinds-window-style 'same-window) seems to work.

punassuming commented 8 years ago

@alphapapa, I added some comments on dealing with various packages in the help documentation to try to address this gap. Thanks for letting me know about it.

alphapapa commented 8 years ago

@ralesi Hmm, ok. But what about package-list-packages? That's part of Emacs.