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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I am struggling to see the advantage of gnus-use-atomic-windows.  Can
> somebody (Eric?) illustrate a benefit (other than helm, as mentioned
> earlier, which I don't use)?  In a day of testing so far, it has
> gotten in the way...  Maybe (definitely) I'm missing the point.

Maybe it's most useful for Helm, after all! I see that the default
*Completions* buffer doesn't actually do what Helm does (squeeze the
pop-up buffer between the Summary and Article buffers), so there's no
advantage there. I was hoping that *Help* pop-up buffers would no longer
occupy one of Gnus' windows, but they still do, so that's no better
either.

Maybe the whole option isn't quite worth it...