From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: same-window-buffer-names and -regexps Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:12:29 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208210012.g7L0CT010086@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200208200243.VAA04929@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200208200316.WAA04944@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029889557 19765 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 00:25:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, 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 17hJJs-00058g-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:25:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hJm1-0002VM-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:55:01 +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 17hJL0-0007Th-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ7E-00058q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ70-00052I-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ6t-0004wt-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7L0Cq512457; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:12:52 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7L0CT010086; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:12:29 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji 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:6700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6700 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. That seems clean to me, since it will make most of these commands work right with no further ado. If after that a few commands still have problems, we can fix those few next.