From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:46:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vs8u68d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E170E48.5040408@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:03:52 +0200")
>>> No. `pop-to-buffer-same-window' doesn't use the selected window if it's
>>> weakly dedicated. Think of making a window dedicated as a poor man's
>>> way of saying "leave this window alone unless I explicitly want to show
>>> another buffer in it".
>> That's a mistake: if the window is fully dedicated, that's right, but if
>> it's weakly dedicated, pop-to-buffer-same-window should override the
>> weak dedication, like switch-to-buffer does (otherwise, there would
>> never be any difference between the two forms of dedication).
> Do you want to change this in the sense that both `switch-to-buffer' and
> `pop-to-buffer-same-window' should reuse a weakly dedicated window?
Yes.
> In that case I'd obviously agree with Chong that there's no real
> difference between the two.
> So we should make `switch-to-buffer' do what it has always done (just
> that now it's more fully customizable).
I'm not sure what "what it has always done" refers to. What it used to
do in Emacs-22 (and does again right now) or what it used to do in Emacs-23?
> I'm not sure though whether you
> would want to make `display-buffer' reuse weakly dedicated windows too?
No, indeed, not display-buffer.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 21:40 switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:32 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 1:49 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 2:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 5:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-06 21:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 9:19 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-07-07 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 23:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 1:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 14:03 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-08 16:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 20:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-09 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 9:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-09 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 13:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 13:31 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 14:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 4:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-12 8:36 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 15:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-13 17:18 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 21:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
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2011-07-13 22:13 grischka
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