Re: display-buffer-overriding-action

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>   defcustom d-b-override-alist
>>   Lisp ACTION
>>   defcustom d-b-alist
>>   defvar d-b-default-action
>
> I have no idea what you're trying to achieve with such a
> re-organisation.

If the majority of non-trivial calls to display-buffer are not going to
use the ACTION argument, that is a waste of the ACTION argument.  A
function argument is cleaner than let-binding around a display-buffer
call.  Forcing the non-trivial users of display-buffer to let-bind
d-b-overriding-action, instead of using the action argument, is a step
back towards the Emacs 23 situation (where one had to let-bind pop-up-*
special-display-*, etc. around such calls to display-buffer).