Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This had nothing to do with display-buffer-mark-dedicated: when we re-use
>> a window for a new buffer, clearly that window is not dedicated to that
>> buffer, since it was used for something else already.
>> 
>> Maybe there are cases where you might want to hijack a non-dedicated
>> window to show some buffer and make it dedicated, but that sounds like
>> a very rare case (I haven't seen such a use-case yet).  "Dedicated"
>> means "it's only used for that buffer".

> IIUC you mark the window as weakly dedicated which means that
> `switch-to-buffer' can use it for showing another buffer.

I'm not sure what you refer to, but In Emacs≤23, a window was only ever
marked dedicated (weakly or strongly) upon creation, never when reused.


        Stefan