From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4E36F72A.8050602@gmx.at> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2A7EBD.7050300@gmx.at> <87livooqt6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2B158B.1080101@gmx.at> <87wrf8iyse.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2BEED2.5040608@gmx.at> <8739hvu6lh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2C50E6.3020103@gmx.at> <878vrnweju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2D34D7.4040002@gmx.at> <87r55cjvef.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjpsnerd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E355D2C.40709@gmx.at> <871ux53y66.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312225090 22215 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2011 18:58:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 20:58:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnxge-0005M0-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:58:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxgY-0006xV-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxgV-0006oZ-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxgU-0001LR-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:41167) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxgU-0001KO-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Aug 2011 18:57:48 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-55-42.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.55.42]) [62.47.55.42] by mail.gmx.net (mp065) with SMTP; 01 Aug 2011 20:57:48 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/hvetL+znhAcyNi3A4LFq3dfdQ1jJCHUQs4h/VhK ySIG1TzqLRsODG User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <871ux53y66.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 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:142643 Archived-At: > It is a very bad idea for `display-buffer-alist' to behave like this. > While allowing "flexible" behaviors like the above (which I suspect will > not scale well), it deviates from the typical behavior of alists, where > only the first matching entry in the alist takes effect. In the above > example, if the first entry matches all buffers, all subsequent entries > in `display-buffer-alist' should have no effect. > > Please change display-buffer-alist so that only the first matching entry > is applied. So every single entry has to contain all possible rules for the corresponding buffer? martin