From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting buffer display Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:25:31 +0300 Message-ID: <835zxrrylg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5BCB1D82.3020108@gmx.at> <834ldgvjmj.fsf@gnu.org> <5BCB6DAE.30209@gmx.at> <83mur7tq4f.fsf@gnu.org> <5BCD92FF.8070905@gmx.at> <838t2qt79v.fsf@gnu.org> <5BCE21AC.6030904@gmx.at> <831s8hu6i8.fsf@gnu.org> <5BCEE2B5.9090205@gmx.at> <83sh0wsnd6.fsf@gnu.org> <5BCF672A.4080605@gmx.at> <83k1m8scq9.fsf@gnu.org> <5BD03F18.1020100@gmx.at> <83h8hbs8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <5BD0AE72.9060503@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540405455 502 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2018 18:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 24 20:24:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNpC-0008R0-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:24:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNrI-0007mb-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNqd-0007mV-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNqZ-00031t-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNqY-00031n-Tm; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1930 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNqY-00005w-H2; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:25:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <5BD0AE72.9060503@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:40:02 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230640 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:40:02 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > But once an application directly or indirectly calls 'display-buffer' > the latter's customizations may kick in and invalidate all assumptions > about the window used. So if your NO-SELECT or Juri's directional > effort fail, 'display-buffer' will inevitably rule the game. As I said before, this is okay, IMO, if used only rarely and not promoted as the main or even just important way of tweaking what commands do.