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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:19 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>> "Dedicated" means "it's only used for that buffer".
>>> IIUC you mark the window as weakly dedicated which means that
>>> `switch-to-buffer' can use it for showing another buffer.
>> I'm not sure what you refer to, but In Emacs≤23, a window was only ever
>> marked dedicated (weakly or strongly) upon creation, never when reused.
> Simply that if a window is weakly dedicated, the meaning of "dedicated"
> cited at the top disagrees with the actual meaning.

Not quite: whenever the soft-dedication is overridden, the window is (at
least should be, barring any bug) un-dedicated.  So, as long as it's
dedicated "it's only used for that buffer".


        Stefan



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