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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 19012@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19012: 25.0.50; `help-window-select'
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:18:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b9d2f61-0c72-48ce-babc-19c269eb900b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvegt99i0f.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>

> > So there is *no* behavior for `special-display-function'
> > to follow, other than its own behavior.
> 
> Let me restate what I said in clearer terms. Of course you're
> free to do whatever you want in special-display-function, but
> if it doesn't follow the behavior described by display-buffer's 
> docstring and you get undesirable behavior, then I will
> consider it as a bug in *your* code rather than in Emacs.

And you will be wrong, at least wrt what `display-buffer' has
said about its own behavior and wrt what its behavior has been.

It is not a bug, according to what `display-buffer' says
about itself, for it to delegate its behavior to
`special-display-function'.  That *is* its intended behavior
when `special-display-function' is used.

If it interferes with that delegation in some way, that is a
bug.  If `display-buffer' itself "doesn't follow the behavior
described by display-buffer's docstring" then that is a bug
in `display-buffer'.

Of course, as Mr Emacs, you are free to change the behavior
of `display-buffer', or `car', or `setq' anyway you like.





      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10 16:42 bug#19012: 25.0.50; `help-window-select' Drew Adams
2014-11-10 17:28 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-10 18:23   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-11  8:29     ` martin rudalics
2014-11-11 14:26       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-11 18:31         ` martin rudalics
2014-11-11 19:01           ` Drew Adams
2014-11-11 21:04             ` Drew Adams
2014-11-13  5:12               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-13  7:44                 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-13 15:23                   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-13 16:28                     ` martin rudalics
2014-11-13 16:56                       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-13 18:47                         ` martin rudalics
2014-11-13 19:21                           ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 11:37                             ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 15:11                               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 16:38                                 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 17:09                                   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 17:39                                     ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 17:47                                       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 18:10                                         ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 18:28                                           ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 18:33                                             ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 18:44                                               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14 19:08                                                 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-14 21:21                                                   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-15 11:24                                                     ` martin rudalics
2014-11-15 14:40                                                       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-16 11:36                                                         ` martin rudalics
2014-11-16 16:20                                                           ` Drew Adams
2014-11-16 17:36                                                             ` martin rudalics
2014-11-16 20:06                                                               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-17  9:29                                                                 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-17 14:29                                                                   ` Drew Adams
2014-12-25 19:30                                                                     ` martin rudalics
2014-11-11 22:16             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-11 23:10               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-12  1:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-12  2:36                   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-12  4:11                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-12  7:18                       ` Drew Adams [this message]

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