From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:58:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin7Q30rRGunzeabsPADB9c-0fk_YfTM_-R+Osk-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D146881.5000504@gmx.at>
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:31 AM, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
>> Make buffer BUFFER-OR-NAME appear in some window but don't select it.
>> BUFFER-OR-NAME must be a buffer or the name of an existing
>> buffer. Return the window chosen to display BUFFER-OR-NAME or
>> nil if no such window is found.
>>
>> I do not understand the last sentence. Could it happen that the buffer
>> is not displayed?
>
> It could happen but it's very unlikely.
>
>> In that case, should not that be an error?
>
> Not really since this might try to display the *Backtrace* buffer :-(
:-(
Does not the error routines do all they can to survive situations like
that? What happens otherwise for example if an error occurs because
the buffer was not displayed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-24 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-24 5:01 Does display-buffer display the buffer or not? Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 8:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-24 9:31 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 10:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-24 11:13 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 11:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 11:49 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 12:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 14:41 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 15:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 17:57 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-24 14:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-24 15:04 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-24 9:31 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-24 9:58 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-12-24 10:27 ` martin rudalics
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