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: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:59:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4E3AA5B2.70708@gmx.at> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com><4E22AE2B.5040806@gmx.at> <4E248102.6080904@gmx.at> <4E380918.3060806@gmx.at> <4E3975C6.5020107@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 1312466374 11345 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 13:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 'Stefan Monnier' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 15:59:30 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 1QoySP-00032k-Fm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoySP-00067U-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoySL-000675-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoySK-0000tW-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:52362) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoySJ-0000sx-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Aug 2011 13:59:21 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-55-46.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.55.46]) [62.47.55.46] by mail.gmx.net (mp061) with SMTP; 04 Aug 2011 15:59:21 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Et9o4rC+Ec1pzFNENrmIq3h1ildmk3IO6mNqoLm xDJ6G8xwPF6mHi 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:142866 > 2. Are you sure that the ability to specify FUNCTION in the cons was added > later? I looked again. It was added later but already in 1994 by Per Abrahamsen. * frame.el (special-display-popup-frame): Rename new arg to ARGS. Allow (FUNCTION OTHER-ARGS...) as the value of ARGS. The same-window and the same-frame features were added in 2001. > 3. FWIW, I'm using Emacs 20.7 right now, in a Windows build from 2000 (long > before 2003, but admittedly after the 1990s). The doc string of > `special-display-buffer-names' specifically mentions the form (BUFFER FUNCTION > OTHER-ARGS...). You're right. At that time this feature existed already. > In particular, I need a way to redirect the *Completions* input focus to the > standalone minibuffer. It would be interesting to make this work when displaying a buffer in another frame and _not_ wanting to direct focus to that frame as in `display-buffer-other-frame'. Somehow the application would have to be able to tell `display-buffer' which frame shall be focused and/or shown in the foreground instead. If at least a few platforms can handle that, obviously. martin