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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Andrew Helsley <helsleya@cs.ucr.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion: minibuffer.el vs comint.el
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:39:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmxkecala.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D91A2E9.9070409@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:14:17 +0200")

> The dedicated window method works well for displaying a buffer in a
> separate frame or a new window.

But that's exactly what we do currently: mark the window dedicated if
and only if the window was created for this buffer.

> It can't be used when a window is reused for displaying the buffer.

Indeed we don't mark it dedicated when we reuse a window.

> In my branch `display-buffer' always records the previous state and
> burying the buffer or quitting the window conveniently restores the
> previous state.

Not sure what "state" this includes, so maybe it's a good idea, but
I haven't seen many complaints about the current behavior in this respect.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20101114173358.683A6628353@mail.cs.ucr.edu>
2010-11-15 21:56 ` Completion: minibuffer.el vs comint.el Andrew Helsley
2011-03-28 14:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29  9:14     ` martin rudalics
2011-03-29 13:39       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-29 15:18         ` martin rudalics
2011-03-29 20:55           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-14 16:44 Андрей Парамонов

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