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bug#15189: 24.3.50; display-buffer does not work well with custom frames
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martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#15189: 24.3.50; display-buffer does not work well with custom frames. |
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Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:34:33 +0200 |
Please keep 15189@debbugs.gnu.org CCed so others can read your mails
too.
> Yes, that works now if we also add the following line to the end of
> lawlist-display-buffer-function: (switch-to-buffer (get-file-buffer
> buffer-filename))
I'm still not quite sure whether I understand what you want to do.
An idiom like
(display-buffer
(find-file buffer-filename))
is practically always wrong because it usually will (1) display the
buffer via `find-file' which calls `switch-to-buffer' which bypasses
`display-buffer' by calling `set-window-buffer' directly and (2) display
the buffer a second time which might result in reusing the window used
in (1) but may also use another window according to your buffer display
settings. In any case, a doc-string like
"Locate or create a specific frame, and then open the file."
is inappropriate because the function nowhere does what you say here.
> I expected display-buffer to execute the display-buffer-function first
> in time (e.g., before executing find-file), but that is not the case.
I'm afraid you're confusing things here. `display-buffer' does execute
`display-buffer-function' first but its arguments get evaluated before
its body. This is something you certainly want too because how would
`display-buffer' otherwise know the buffer it is supposed to display?
> If the purpose of display-buffer is not to execute the
> display-buffer-function first in time (e.g., before executing
> find-file), then I made an erroneous assumption regarding the reason
> for using display-buffer.
I suppose you made the erroneous assumption that `find-file' does not
display the file's buffer. That's why I suggested to use
`find-file-noselect' instead. Anyway, using `display-buffer-function'
is deprecated since Emacs 24.3 and was hardly used in previous versions.
What you probably want to do is to customize `display-buffer-alist'
instead.
martin
bug#15189: 24.3.50; display-buffer does not work well with custom frames., Keith David Bershatsky, 2013/08/26
bug#15189: 24.3.50; display-buffer does not work well with custom frames., Keith David Bershatsky, 2013/08/27