From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 08:48:37 -0700 Message-ID: <6579C2F7C73A46B5BD73B383C60A246B@us.oracle.com> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com><4E22AE2B.5040806@gmx.at> <4E248102.6080904@gmx.at> <4E380918.3060806@gmx.at> <4E3975C6.5020107@gmx.at> <4E3AA5B2.70708@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312472944 24869 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 15:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 'Stefan Monnier' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'martin rudalics'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 17:48:59 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 1Qp0AM-0000Rd-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:48:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp0AL-0002Ev-PF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp0AJ-0002Ee-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp0AI-0008B4-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:43052) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp0AI-0008Am-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rtcsinet21.oracle.com (rtcsinet21.oracle.com [66.248.204.29]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p74Fmi0X003420 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:48:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by rtcsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p74Fmhwj026141 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:48:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p74FmclV006390; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:48:37 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4E3AA5B2.70708@gmx.at> Thread-Index: AcxSrrwSdbFUZ8zpTQ6FpUwLWxSRHwACx7Fg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: rtcsinet21.oracle.com [66.248.204.29] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4E3ABF5F.008D,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:142876 Archived-At: > I looked again. It was added later but already in 1994 by > Per Abrahamsen. Thanks again for checking this stuff. > > 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. Sorry, I don't understand what you say here at all. Could you maybe rephrase that a bit, elaborate, or provide an example?