From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 3366@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3366: 23.0.94; doc of split-window-preferred-function, display-buffer, etc.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:39:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wki7gsd.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1CE359.1080603@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 27 May 2009 08:53:13 +0200")
>>> Also `display-buffer' should call `split-window-preferred-function' at
>>> most once. Calling it with the largest and the LRU window (which may
>>> designate one and the same window) appears merely disconcerting.
>>
>> Agreed. I have no idea why it's called several times as of now.
>> It clearly isn't due to backward compatibility since this is new in
>> Emacs 23.
> It is due to backward compatibility. The only new thing here is that
> `split-window-preferred-function' can decide whether and how to split
> the window. If it returns nil for the first call it will be called a
> second time, though.
Huh? Emacs-22 does not have `split-window-preferred-function', so
I can't see how backward compatibility comes into the picture.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-24 17:01 bug#3366: 23.0.94; doc of split-window-preferred-function, display-buffer, etc Drew Adams
2009-05-25 7:04 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-25 8:42 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 9:40 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-25 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-26 9:28 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-26 13:47 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-26 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-27 6:53 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-27 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-05-27 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-27 17:03 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-27 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 16:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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