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Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?
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martin rudalics |
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Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not? |
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Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:41:58 +0100 |
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>>> 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?
I don't know whether it's better. Maybe because, as I tried to explain
earlier, the error handler would call `display-buffer' and fail the same
way.
martin
- 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, 2010/12/24
- Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?,
martin rudalics <=
- 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