From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: display-buffer cleverness - how to tame? Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 07:39:29 -0700 Message-ID: <002a01c9ccc6$2221c840$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <000c01c9cc8b$ba796c50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <49FEA973.70705@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241448216 26779 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2009 14:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'martin rudalics'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 16:43:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M0zO7-0000pd-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:43:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0zO6-0000R7-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0zKk-00089x-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0zKd-00087u-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0zKc-00087g-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:46291 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0zKb-000289-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 10:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n44EdTjn025886 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 4 May 2009 14:39:30 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt008.oracle.com (abhmt008.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n44Edm2U009927; Mon, 4 May 2009 14:39:48 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/98.210.250.59) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 04 May 2009 07:39:30 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <49FEA973.70705@gmx.at> Thread-Index: AcnMk//DrAVxMEvCQbavwqS1WSfBYQAMHAYA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: abhmt008.oracle.com [141.146.116.17] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010202.49FEFE23.0188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110638 Archived-At: > To get the old behavior back in your case it will be best to > write your own `split-window-preferred-function' just as we're > currently trying to do for `dired-pop-to-buffer'. This will > let you specify explicitly which window `display-buffer' should > try to split and whether it should > split it vertically or horizontally. It's a joke, right? Emacs adding DWIM now means that if you want the simple, straightforward behavior of old you need to write it yourself? I'd sooner copy the Emacs 22 `display-buffer' code and just use that, except that it's in C. ;-) You are not making it easier for users (which includes Emacs-Lisp users)...