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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
	Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:41:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D14B136.2050202@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimGYjTww8yPMudqiVuT+iNvaFmyAqmD16ifzwbr@mail.gmail.com>

 >>> Why is the average programmer better at avoiding looping here?
 >> Emacs doesn't pop up the *Backtrace* buffer by default so the "average"
 >> user is not affected.  And the average user is not supposed to customize
 >> `pop-up-frame-function' either.  I intended this as a hint for people
 >> writing, for example, a silly `pop-up-frame-function' so they can find
 >> the cuplrit easier.  And, obviously, if a function is allowed to return
 >> nil, the doc-string of the function should say so.
 >
 > And why is it better not to give an error then?

I don't know whether it's better.  Maybe because, as I tried to explain
earlier, the error handler would call `display-buffer' and fail the same
way.

martin



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-24 14:41 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 [this message]
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
2010-12-24 10:27     ` martin rudalics

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