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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 16:43:20 +0100 |
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:41 PM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 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.
And in response to that I said that then it is left to every
programmer using display-buffer to handle this very uncommon cases
instead.
- 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, 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?, 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