From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: managing windows in two frames Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:22:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8561uiclrj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5225DB8D.6060709@gmx.at> <858uzcbggs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5229B40A.5040300@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378473762 32597 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2013 13:22:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 06 15:22:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHvzn-0002b6-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:22:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHvzm-00080n-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHvzd-0007yN-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHvzW-00082g-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:51588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHvzW-00082T-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:22:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KK6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KK6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="26652635" Original-Received: from 206-248-162-186.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.162.186]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Sep 2013 09:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 73322663C1; Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:22:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5229B40A.5040300@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:52:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163222 Archived-At: >> Make C-x 5 a prefix key which sets display-buffer-overriding-action for >> the duration of the next command. > This won't work well in one particular case (Michael Heerdegen recently > mentioned it on Emacs-help and I try to recall what he wrote): Suppose > when switching to a file interactively via `find-file' you set > `display-buffer-overriding-action' to some value for displaying the > file. Now that command might pop up a window for completing the > filename calling `display-buffer' in a nested fashion. Should that call > adhere to `display-buffer-overriding-action` or, as probably expected, > use the built-in or user-defined behavior for the *Completions* buffer? Indeed, minibuffers and other forms of recursive edits need to be adjusted (like they are for C-u). Stefan