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Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not? |
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Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:06:27 +0100 |
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:49 PM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> That's a correct conclusion, indeed. The "creating a new frame" part
>>> would then have to sidestep `pop-up-frame-function', obviously.
>>
>> So the average programmers is supposed to know how to handle this, but
>> those writing for example the routines that shows a backtrace when
>> there is an error are not.
>>
>> Why is the average programmer better at avoiding looping here?
>
> Emacs doesn't pop up the *Backtrace* buffer by default so the "average"
> user is not affected. And the average user is not supposed to customize
> `pop-up-frame-function' either. I intended this as a hint for people
> writing, for example, a silly `pop-up-frame-function' so they can find
> the cuplrit easier. And, obviously, if a function is allowed to return
> nil, the doc-string of the function should say so.
And why is it better not to give an error then?
- Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Tassilo Horn, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Tassilo Horn, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Tassilo Horn, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/24
Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?, martin rudalics, 2010/12/24