bug#18133: Suppressing asynchronous command output

[Reuben Thomas]

On 24 December 2016 at 13:54, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

Applications have three ways to affect what ‘display-buffer’ does:

(1) Provide the function to use via an argument.  This can be overridden
    by ‘display-buffer-alist’.

(2) Let-bind ‘display-buffer-alist’ temporarily to a value of its
    preference.  This is a work-around for the case where the
    application does not call ‘display-buffer’ directly.

(3) Use ‘display-buffer-overriding-action’.  This overrides
    ‘display-buffer-alist’ completely.

​Thanks for this clear summary (and thanks to Eli for helping out!).​

 

Is it really so difficult to provide an extra option which allows to
have either of these trigger the wanted behavior?

​Could you please make a concrete suggestion? I must admit that I don't feel competent yet, and I've already tried and failed!

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