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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:09:44 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
> So, IIUC, compared to
>
> display-buffer-alist ::= list of (CONDITION . RULE)
> RULE ::= (FUNCTIONS . ALIST)
> FUNCTIONS ::= list of FUNCTION
>
> DISPLAY-SPECIFIERS play the role of FUNCTIONS and the SOMETHING-ELSE is
> the ALIST, so it contains arguments to pass to each of the FUNCTIONS and
> some of those args may be specific to some of the functions while others
> may be obeys by all/some of the functions.
With the additional twist that whenever a condition fails, the head of
the alist (including that condition) is no more considered/obeyed for
displaying the buffer.
>> 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.
martin
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, (continued)
- RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Drew Adams, 2011/08/31
- RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/08/31
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, John Yates, 2011/08/09
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/08/08
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/08/09
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/09
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- RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Drew Adams, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/10
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/10
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- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/08
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