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: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:22:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4E3975D2.5000203@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> <87k4axzg7j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oc092gy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E380897.5000406@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312388581 24350 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2011 16:23:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:23:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 03 18:22:57 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 1QoeDg-0007kE-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:22:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoeDg-0002y5-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoeDc-0002w9-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoeDW-0004S1-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:35245) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoeDV-0004QX-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Aug 2011 16:22:43 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-44-238.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.44.238]) [62.47.44.238] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 03 Aug 2011 18:22:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18yUP9IDmoyMD/hFt9EwjbslLGowGADFmMqBj8I1O Y0OO04sWE4Jeph User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: 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:142827 Archived-At: > This had nothing to do with display-buffer-mark-dedicate: when we re-use > a window for a new buffer, clearly that window is not dedicated to that > buffer, since it was used for something else already. > > Maybe there are cases where you might want to hijack a non-dedicated > window to show some buffer and make it dedicated, but that sounds like > a very rare case (I haven't seen such a use-case yet). "Dedicated" > means "it's only used for that buffer". IIUC you mark the window as weakly dedicated which means that `switch-to-buffer' can use it for showing another buffer. martin