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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:03:20 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> "Specifications of user preferences for `display-buffer'.
>> This is a list of elements of the form (CONDITION . ACTION)
>> where CONDITION is either a regexp matching buffer names, or a function
>> that takes a buffer and returns a boolean.
>> ACTION is a list of the form (FUNCTION . ALIST) where FUNCTION can be
>> either a function or a list of functions.
This is probably more simply stated as
This is a list of elements of the form (CONDITION FUNCTIONS ACTION-ARGS...)
>> (defun display-buffer (&optional buffer action)
>> "Display BUFFER in some window."
>> (let* ((user-action
>> (assq-regexp (buffer-name buffer) display-buffer-alist))
>> (functions (append (car display-buffer-overriding-action)
>> (car user-action)
>> (car action)
>
> Here the user has only two choices: Either accept the (car action) with
> its alist or use its own (car user-action) with its own alist.
>
>> (car display-buffer-default-action)))
I don't see any problem with that.
> As a next step suppose Chong wants to adjust the height of the new
> window created by `display-buffer-near-minibuffer' calling, for
> example, `fit-window-to-buffer'. We'll soon find someone who dislikes
> this behavior and wants `display-buffer' to leave the new height
> alone. So someone will propose to add a new user option to turn that
> behavior off.
It's not necessary for a new option. This can be handled with an
element in display-buffer-default-action, since the alist of arguments
passed to the display function is constructed by
>> (alist (append (cdr display-buffer-overriding-action)
>> (cdr user-action)
>> (cdr action)
>> (cdr display-buffer-default-action))))
The display function just needs to know about that alist element. So I
don't think this objection is valid.
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, (continued)
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/09
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/09
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/11
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/11
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/16
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/16
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/17
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/18
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/12
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/13