From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `pop-up-frames' and binding/setting user options [was: Documenting buffer display] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5BCD9331.6020203@gmx.at> <3c7bc9d6-2841-4f67-96ef-511af5237475@default> <5BCE21BD.80008@gmx.at> <0f035e05-e04e-459c-b9a3-df1eb5542e65@default> <5BCEE2C8.50008@gmx.at> <66b0ff55-af0d-42c0-80b1-87585e4c557f@default> <939e2acd-f654-40c1-b595-4ec1fe1aab4d@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540318765 31569 195.159.176.226 (23 Oct 2018 18:19:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:19:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 20:19:21 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 1gF1Gy-000866-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF1J4-0007RT-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF1I6-0007Pt-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF1I2-0000xS-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:51099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF1Hq-0000nF-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w9NIK9gj025108; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8635E6A487; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <939e2acd-f654-40c1-b595-4ec1fe1aab4d@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:01:16 -0700 (PDT)") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6402=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6402> : inlines <6940> : streams <1802164> : uri <2736443> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:230603 Archived-At: > That's similar to using `special-display-buffer-names'. > (Not the same, but similar.) You're confused: it's exactly the same. `display-buffer-alist` is nothing but a replacement for `special-display-buffer-names`. You can do exactly the same with either of them. We had to introduce `display-buffer-alist` to replace `special-display-buffer-names` only for "minor" consistency reasons, to better interact with other ways to specify how to display a buffer. Stefan