From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: 12848-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de
Subject: bug#12848: 24.2.50; Doc: give an example for a typical entry of `display-buffer-alist'
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:32:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A65C8E.3080004@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqxuxufe.fsf@web.de>
> `display-buffer-alist' entries are quite complex. OTOH, it's not
> uncommon that a typical user might need it. We should give an example
> entry, somewhere.
>
> Today, I thought: "I want that *Help* is always displayed in a new frame
> when it is not already displayed anywhere". It took some
> time to figure out what was needed:
>
> (add-to-list
> 'display-buffer-alist
> '("\\`\\*Help\\*\\'" . ; make *Help* pop up in a new frame when not already displayed
> ((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-pop-up-frame) .
> ((reusable-frames . t)))))
>
> I think something like that should be included as an example somewhere
> in the docs - maybe in the documentation of `display-buffer-alist'
> itself, maybe in the manual.
I tried to provide an example in revision 110885 on the
Emacs-24 release branch. Please have a look.
Thanks, martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 22:50 bug#12848: 24.2.50; Doc: give an example for a typical entry of `display-buffer-alist' Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-09 23:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-16 15:32 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2012-11-18 0:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-18 11:36 ` martin rudalics
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