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I recently started using spacemacs/emacs, and encountered the following problem:

When I enable popwin-mode I would expect popup windows to get handled by popwin. However, when I run occur (M-x occur), it seems to not be - the buffer with the occur results always gets opened in another buffer either to the left or right of the current one. And can not be closed with C-g, as advertised.

Having set popwin-window-position to bottom, I would also expect occur to open a new buffer below the current one. But, as I said, it does not.

Could anyone help me fix whatever is the problem here?

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  • What is the value of the option popwin:special-display-config? The default value of popwin:special-display-config has an entry (occur-mode :noselect t) which should handle occur-mode.
    – Tobias
    Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 18:55

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@Tobias's comment led me to the solution.

popwin has a variable special-display-config which specifies, in various ways, on what buffers it should act on. The spacemacs default configuration does not by default handle occur-mode. I added an entry named *occur* via M-x customize-variable, and now it works.

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