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I have my Emacs setup to never split anything and just use the whole frame (window). That also goes for things like helm. Instead of splitting I prefer to open multiple frames and let my window manager, manage them. This really improved my workflow.


How do I go about doing this ?

Seems potentially workable. Youd just jump back to the last buffer a lot of time, but that's quick and intuitivr.


(setq display-buffer-base-action '(display-buffer-same-window))


thank you ! I'll see how it goes. Hope it won't be too wonky.

Ex: In Magit when committing it now first shows a "changes" buffer that you have to kill and then you can get to the buffer where you write the commit message. Not a biggie but prolly breaks the original UI design


Same here, but I let most things replace the current buffer. Magit always fills the frame though.




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