From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: same-window-buffer-names and -regexps Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:09:46 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208200409.XAA04957@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200208200243.VAA04929@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200208200316.WAA04944@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029816627 16814 127.0.0.1 (20 Aug 2002 04:10:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 04:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17h0LX-0004Mx-00 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:10:23 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17h0nE-0007uh-00 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17h0MZ-00017c-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17h0L2-000165-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17h0L0-00015S-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17h0Ky-000151-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA13140; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:09:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id XAA04957; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:09:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Miles Bader on 20 Aug 2002 12:25:45 +0900) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6670 Miles Bader wrote: Perhaps the 2nd argument to display-buffer (`NOT-THIS-WINDOW'), should cause it to ignore those variables; it seems like a natural extension to me, and it would mean that callers don't have to know about all the various special variables in order to get this behavior. Maybe. I do not know whether we have a complete list of all affected callers yet and whether all these callers actually want to set `NOT-THIS-WINDOW' non-nil. If we bind C-x 4 C-o and C-o in buffer-menu to a new command, then callers like ielm-display-working-buffer can call that new command instead of display-buffer, so that they also do not have to worry about binding all these variables directly themselves. I believe that the overhead of the one extra function call should be be immaterial. Sincerely, Luc.