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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:08:45 +0300 |
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>>> In my proposal, these things are called "rule", where RULE has the form
>>> (FUNCTION . ARGS).
>> In classical logic, necessary part of "rule" is "condition".
>
> I don't care about which name is used. I didn't choose SPECIFIER
> because that's already used in this discussion for the same purpose but
> with a different representation and the whole point of this discussion
> is to figure out which representation to use.
I agree that SPECIFIER doesn't say that it's a function call.
Actually in logic, second part of the rule is called ACTION.
Moreover, a function call is a typical case of ACTION.
So let's be clear in the terminology from the beginning
to avoid the mess and misunderstandings later:
RULE ::= (CONDITION . ACTION)
ACTION ::= (FUNCTION . ARGS)
> My suggestion was to have display-buffer-alist be a list of
> (CONDITION . RULE).
Sorry, it hurts my brains to read (CONDITION . RULE). When I try to
expand RULE whose first part should be CONDITION according to its
classical definition, with (CONDITION . (CONDITION . (CONDITION . ...)))
I'm going into infinite recursion :)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'same-frame)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'same-window)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'other-window)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'nearby)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'near-minibuffer)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'below-selected)
>> (display-buffer buffer 'side-window)
>
> I don't know if I was worried about size, but right now I'm not too
> worried about size, no.
I'm worried about size, but with your design this problem could be later
mitigated with something like this in `display-buffer':
(let ((function (intern (format "display-buffer-%s" (car specifiers)))))
(if (functionp function)
(apply function args)))
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, (continued)
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/05
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/05
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- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/07
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/08
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- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/09
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