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Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and s


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:17:39 +0200

>    > The purpose of 'display-buffer-alist' is to set up a window for one
>    > single buffer.
>
> Perhaps the doc string and/or the manual should explicitly clarify
> this point.

My sentence above is misleading: It's a sloppy abbreviation for the
two sentences

"The purpose of 'display-buffer' is to set up a window for one single
buffer.  Hence 'display-buffer-alist' can only be used for customizing
the setup of a window for one single buffer - the one specified by the
first argument of 'display-buffer'."

So if anything would have to be clarified here, it's the doc of
'display-buffer'.  Now conceptually, 'display-buffer' can be called
multiple times in a row and should do something reasonable in that
case - if programmed correctly.  But it cannot be used for setting up
windows for two or more buffers in one single call and that should be
evident from its doc-string.

martin



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