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bug#7865: Bug in display-buffer-reuse-frames [was Re: bug#7865: 24.0.50;
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martin rudalics |
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bug#7865: Bug in display-buffer-reuse-frames [was Re: bug#7865: 24.0.50; doc of display-buffer-reuse-frames] |
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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:04:30 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
>> I suppose you mean "if `display-buffer-reuse-frames' is nil and
>> `pop-up-frames' is t" in the first sentence above. In that case I'd
>> agree.
>
> I'm confused here. Which case are we talking about, which behavior is
> not desired, and which alternative behavior would you(plural) prefer?
When a buffer is already displayed, `display-buffer-reuse-frames' is nil
and `pop-up-frames' is non-nil, `display-buffer' reuses a window. So if
you set the default of `display-buffer-reuse-frames' to t as someone
proposed, customizing `display-buffer-reuse-frames' will have no effect
when `pop-up-frames' is non-nil. I don't know whether this is desired
or not and I don't care about the alternatives because `pop-up-frames'
is nil here.
I guess that `display-buffer-reuse-frames' was invented for something
like the following use case:
- The user has `pop-up-frames' nil.
- An application binds `pop-up-frames' to non-nil and pops up a buffer
in a new frame.
- The user returns to her old frame and eventually does something like
`pop-to-buffer' on that buffer which should get her to the new frame.
This means that setting `display-buffer-reuse-frames' to t makes sense
iff `pop-up-frames' is nil and the scenario I described above does not
apply, usually. It's still confusing in my opinion, though.
martin