From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 15649@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15649: 24.3.50; removal of "special-display" from Emacs and Elisp manuals
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:04:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0288987-8740-4123-a7f9-3bc5d15e855d@default> (raw)
Please put back the doc about special-display buffers. This is a useful
concept, and the special-display variables and functions are easy to use.
This should not have been jettisoned in your excitement to revamp
`display-buffer' and implement `display-buffer-alist'. It is much
easier and more understandable for someone to use
`special-display-regexps' or `special-display-buffer-names' than it is
to use `display-buffer-alist' to try to accomplish the same thing.
Having `display-buffer-alist', to be able to deal with every fantastic
combination imaginable, does not preclude also having the easy-to-use
special-display features. You've added to the possible, unintelligible,
and corner cases, but you have thrown out the baby with the bathwater:
The common, simple cases are now as complex as any others. Nothing is
gained by throwing special-display away. KISS. Think of Emacs users.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-10-09 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 114596 jan.h.d@swipnet.se-20131009185014-vynfyw4o8p5fge54
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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2013-10-18 22:04 Drew Adams [this message]
2013-10-21 0:55 ` bug#15649: 24.3.50; removal of "special-display" from Emacs and Elisp manuals Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 2:50 ` Drew Adams
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