From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12848: 24.2.50; Doc: give an example for a typical entry of `display-buffer-alist' Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:50:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87wqxuxufe.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352501459 11533 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2012 22:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 22:50:59 +0000 (UTC) To: 12848@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 23:51:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWxPm-000877-Nv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:51:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWxPd-0007Yz-Fl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWxOq-00083n-TN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:63379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWxOq-00082f-Jb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([89.204.130.15]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LxOQ2-1TI5HJ0p0k-016EJh for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:50:07 +0100 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:tgrBSS/RgahGXlgv9J4upy3dEQPYQsm/7BfS3MWWzl7 28GLlbq9kGCvSZgK5S8LJF8EcTkqBPki9WXUJU/xeyBil4av5m XuD9HmZprufPfgQNc4B7qWqOGJqSrscCmLiy4eKXAySCoT3M7O xCQv6IAYPeSjZGS/mxF8dKHl1P/y5WtbXBVCXJ9DYDO3RKigxa 4kXjGOpASTEWc5O7YAlGRfoXwraoSZOyMpSSudKsAc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x 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:66714 Archived-At: Hello, `display-buffer-alist' entries are quite complex. OTOH, it's not uncommon that a typical user might need it. We should give an example entry, somewhere. Today, I thought: "I want that *Help* is always displayed in a new frame when it is not already displayed anywhere". It took some time to figure out what was needed: (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\`\\*Help\\*\\'" . ; make *Help* pop up in a new frame when not already displayed ((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-pop-up-frame) . ((reusable-frames . t))))) I think something like that should be included as an example somewhere in the docs - maybe in the documentation of `display-buffer-alist' itself, maybe in the manual. Thanks, and regards, Michael. In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2012-11-01 on dex, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20121101-1) Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) Configured using: `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.2.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.2.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed -znocombreloc' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''