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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Eide <eeide@jaguar.cs.utah.edu> writes:

Eric> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
Steven> I'm planning two interface tweaks for the next betas.  The
Steven> first involves the display of help.  [...]  Sudish Joseph made
Steven> the suggestion that this might be optimized by calling
Steven> shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer on the *Help* output
Steven> window.  I've made this change to with-displaying-help-buffer,
Steven> lisp-complete-symbol and apropos-print, and so far I like it.

Eric> What happens when the screen is already split into two or more
Eric> windows?

One of the existing windows is used.

Eric> Is the window chosen for *Help* resized?

Yes.  If three windows are in the frame, the help window can get
bigger as before, it can also get smaller.

Eric> A nice feature of the current non-resizing behavior is that it
Eric> is straightforward to get back to one's original window
Eric> configuration.

That hasn't changed.

The only change is to shrink the help window if it would be displayed
with blank lines.
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