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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications


From: Štěpán Němec
Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:42:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:09:44 +0200
martin rudalics wrote:

>>> I'm lost here.  Do you mean that users who prefer the old
>>> `display-buffer' behavior get overridden by the application whenever
>>> it passes an argument but do get the old behavior when the application
>>> does not pass an argument?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Ouch.

Bah! Please don't let this happen. Other than being
inconsistent/confusing/crazy (I'm not quite sure what the "old behavior"
means here), wasn't the main point of the rewrite to give power to the
user? IOW, users must _always_ be able to override what the application
specified.

-- 
Štěpán



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