From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9532: 24.0.50; `special-display-regexps' is no longer respected Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:18 -0400 Message-ID: <8739fp6z4h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <9202F08DB196437E8AD75A3C535E5A7D@us.oracle.com> <87y5xlg9xq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1D79C6CD14EE4C76B74C446E04B9CA65@us.oracle.com> <85680E6E160C472FBC47C2FDA86BA171@us.oracle.com> <874o05x4l6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87obydeoj7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316661716 29727 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2011 03:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9532@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 05:21:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6ZrB-0000xk-6y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:21:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6ZrA-0002aE-NK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Zr7-0002Zx-Dm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Zr6-00046N-4o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Zr6-00046J-21 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6ZrO-0001wv-5y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9532 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9532-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9532.13166617027467 (code B ref 9532); Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9532) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Sep 2011 03:21:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Zr3-0001wO-OR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6Zr0-0001wG-V2 for 9532@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (c-24-218-139-29.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [24.218.139.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8M3LI4U013962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:16:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:22:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:51641 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> M-: (setq special-display-regexps '("foo")) RET >> M-: (get-buffer-create "foo") RET >> M-x switch-to-buffer RET foo RET >> >> In Emacs 23, this switches to the "foo" buffer in the selected window. >> With the proposed change, the direct switch-to-buffer call opens it in a >> special window (just like the switch-to-buffer call in `info'). > >> So we would be swapping on backward incompatibility for another. > > M-x switch-to-buffer should never call display-buffer. > Only non-interactive calls should do that. So, you agree to the incompatibility for the non-interactive case? That is to say, a non-interactive call to switch-to-buffer (and ONLY a non-interactive call) will now trigger special display. Previously, in Emacs 23, it would use the selected window. If you agree, I'd implement the behavior by adding a new value for s-t-b's FORCE-SAME-WINDOW argument, `try', which would be the default for interactive calls. That would mean to first try displaying in the current selected window directly instead of going through p-t-b. It would be quite unfortunate to have interactive and non-interactive calls to s-t-b do slightly different things; but maybe it can't be helped.