From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:31:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4E42B250.1030104@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312993915 10844 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2011 16:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: drew.adams@oracle.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 18:31:48 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 1QrBh3-0007jH-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:31:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrBh3-0005uV-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrBgw-0005u4-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrBgp-0007Jl-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:39708) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrBgo-0007JJ-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2011 16:31:27 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [10.131.36.162]) [89.204.154.162] by mail.gmx.net (mp065) with SMTP; 10 Aug 2011 18:31:27 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Ni5oTCgmNj6BbETPwpiEUKFHk2kuORYPsk1oAkJ lgu8wIsc5h7yXh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) Original-References: 90D18480FF1C477CBDE629F658650C08@us.oracle.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:143115 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Attempts to order such things strictly are misguided. > [and] > Some default ordering is fine, but there should be no > attempt to prevent code from overriding user settings etc. Note that overriding is just that: an attempt to enforce strict order. Therefor "no attempt to prevent code from overriding" means nothing else but to support misguided attempts to order. > There is code and there is code. Not all code that overrides a > saved user setting is doing something the user does not want. Which then would be code that overrides the user's settings in order to do what the user wants, right? --- grischka