Ah well. I find the new way jarring, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone else, and as it's a one-line (2 character!) change for me I think I can carry the diff in my init file for now. In any case it's a small issue I think.An honour to find myself in disagreement with the org-founder!
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:47 AM Carsten Dominik <domi...@uva.nl> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > I made this change, because I found the previous way jarring. The window > with the selection information showed up in different places depending on > what the current window setup is. With the new implementation, the info > window is always in the same predictable place. After the selection is > done, the old window setup is restored to exactly what it was.... > > Carsten > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 8:46 PM Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've recently noticed a slightly frustrating behavour on the part of >> org-todo that I think is new and maybe was introduced in mid-August with >> >> f1c030bed54737319aeb1d592e3340d6a48cea3a >> >> In a split frame,calling org-todo with org-use-fast-todo-selection >> enabled, ~C-c C-t~ now calls ~delete-other-windows~ before popping up the >> org-todo keywords window. Is this necessary? I find this behaviour >> visually confusing and distracting, and a slowdown to my workflow. Would >> it make sense to introduce some kind of defcustom for this? For now I'm >> just commenting out line 10614 of org.el, but if others want to be able to >> customize the behaviour I will submit a patch. >> >> Maybe there's a reason delete-other-window is necessary, but i don't see >> it in the commit message nor immediately in the other parts of this >> otherwise very well-documented commit >> >> Thanks! >> >>
