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, 31 Aug 2011 13:46:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5E1EF9.7080806@gmx.at> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxfnn414.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3D41F2.8060801@gmx.at> <4E3FA812.3080009@gmx.at> <87zkjkb572.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E3FD5ED.5000206@gmx.at> <4E412E2D.90908@gmx.at> <4E422ECA.2020207@gmx.at> <4E43A253.9040404@gmx.at> <4E59F6D1.5060800@gmx.at> <4E5BE2B9.9030307@gmx.at> <87zkiqicdo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hb4ythby.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E5DFFE1.6080200@gmx.at> <87hb4xq3jn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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 1314791181 9773 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 11:46:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , 'Stefan Monnier' , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 13:46:16 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 1QyjFI-0005Wh-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:46:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyjFF-0003bu-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyjFD-0003bp-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyjFB-0005JT-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:47595) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyjFB-0005J7-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2011 11:46:07 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-37-141.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.37.141]) [62.47.37.141] by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 31 Aug 2011 13:46:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/W6Pk7KlbW0FOi4ZEkSTvD3HUdSB2KGds1ruMJui jV8ghRNZaLr9f7 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <87hb4xq3jn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 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:143658 Archived-At: > What do you think about Stefan's near-term goal: > >> We should focus at this point on providing: >> - the functionality of Emacs-23 (i.e. mostly same-frame, same-window, >> other-window, other-frame, dedicated-or-not, existing-window) so as to >> be able to mark the various old config vars as obsolete. > > I agree that it would be expedient to do this before 24.1: > to obsolete the old vars and move their default values to two > defcustoms: `display-buffer-alist' and `display-buffer-default-alist'. Please go ahead doing as much as you can in this area. I'm not very apt to write code based on variables that shall be obsoleted. martin