* Ivar Refsdal [2008-01-30 17:48+0100] writes:

I have a simple question. Is it possible to run (shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer)

when running such commands as slime-documentation? Could this feature or option perhaps be added to Slime?

I guess your Emacs frame is pretty high, or why do you want to shrink the window?

The standard Emacs documentation commands (for Emacs Lisp) don't shrink the window and I would like to follow that model. Thinking about it, Emacs 23 has a new macro with-help-window, maybe we should use that and ask the Emacs maintainers to add an option to shrink the window. They already added a new option help-window-select.

I've tried with defadvice, but no luck yet.

slime-with-output-to-temp-buffer is a macro, that could be a problem for defadvice.

At the moment I've simply inserted a shrink-window-if.. call into the macro slime-with-output-to-temp-buffer. That works, however that macro is used by a bunch of other things, so it might (or will) break other things.

Yeah, slime-with-output-to-temp-buffer is already very complicated. It's no fun to change it.

Helmut.