[Org] org-open-at-point always makes a new window. Can I get it to
reuse the 'other' window if I have one open?
reddit / emacs

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DO_NOT_PRESS_6 · 2022-06-28 20:40

I often have two windows open in emacs, vertically split. \`org-open-
at-point\` on a local link, or \`find-file-other-window\` tend to
create yet another split, and I end up with an unusable frame setup.

I wonder if someone here knows of a strategy for keeping window splits
sane, perhaps by designating a window for visiting these sorts of
things, or by limiting the number/width of windows in a frame.

Emacs being what it is, I'm \*sure\* a solution has been invented, but
I haven't been able to find it in my searching so far.

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yantar92 · 2022-06-29 01:23

You probably need to customize `org-link-frame-setup`

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DO_NOT_PRESS_6 · 2022-06-29 13:50

Okay, thanks. I didn't know about that. It doesn't look like it quite
has the level of semantics that I vaguely sketched out above, but I'll
play with it some.

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yantar92 · 2022-06-29 13:55

I am not 100% sure what level of semantics you are looking for. Emacs
provides plenty of functions to display new buffer. See the docstring
of `display-buffer`.

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DO_NOT_PRESS_6 · 2022-06-29 13:59

I think I was just being a lazy emacser, coddled by packages that take
a high-level concept and expose a pile of rich semantics around it. I
think maybe I was expecting someone to point me to painless-windows.el
or something :)

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WallyMetropolis · 2022-06-29 15:04

You mean ... like Hyperbole?


(I kid, figuring out everything Hyperbole can do is far from painless.
But I bet it can do this.)

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rswgnu · 2022-06-30 05:31

Wally is indeed right that Hyperbole’s hpath:where setting let’s you
choose where to display link referents easily, much simpler than the
options available with display-buffer.  Hyperbole can open org links
as well.