Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications

[Juri Linkov]

> I hopefully restored the old code now together with the functionality
> needed for quit-window and a rudimentary `pop-to-buffer-same-window'
> function.  So feel free to go on reducing the current bottleneck.

What do you think about Stefan's near-term goal:

> We should focus at this point on providing:
> - the functionality of Emacs-23 (i.e. mostly same-frame, same-window,
>   other-window, other-frame, dedicated-or-not, existing-window) so as to
>   be able to mark the various old config vars as obsolete.

I agree that it would be expedient to do this before 24.1:
to obsolete the old vars and move their default values to two
defcustoms: `display-buffer-alist' and `display-buffer-default-alist'.