\"Joshua O'Connor\" writes: > Hi, > I wanted to control the positioning of the *Org Select* buffer, so I > first went to add a rule to 'display-buffer-alist'. > But I found it didn't work, as the function in question calls > 'org-switch-to-buffer-other-window', which in turn calls an odd macro > 'org-no-popups', which appears to let-nil the 'display-buffer-alist'. > > I was wondering what the reason is for this? To me I expected this > variable to be reserved for me as a user to choose where windows can go, > which I think is a good plan given that you cannot possible know all the > configurations a user may want the window to appear.
I agree that this should left to the user, and in 9.4 there was at least some progress in making Org behave better in this department: <https://orgmode.org/list/87eevw7jqk....@gmail.com/>. I've yet to do any extensive digging, but I suspect there wasn't a strong reason for doing this. I'd be in favor of a patch that drops the use of display-buffer-alist.
