From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Pop-up-windows vs display-buffer-take-action Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:10:41 +0200 Message-ID: <835yc2advi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831qmqc0be.fsf@gnu.org> <83ttzmajk8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2808"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: raman@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 21:11:42 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pSO7x-0000ZT-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:11:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pSO7K-0002zD-FR; Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pSO7I-0002yq-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pSO7H-0003YR-RW; Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:10:59 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Di1CJx2tfIhFiN/dTpWL+Nkq9FB6fcbZ6dfP7apitpw=; b=rslyb9tTKVYE ebJEsdu3WBQTUqHhQjmAPuvTfN+0TFz7wkauuwjLzH68FPAXGSK7RJ91B7xnQkIB4oDqG4XoCik83 18lWbiX1jiYkdVIG+djkOIP+6EASzKu+8MkwTbKPJDvi5jV+k7FX4ii5vRDGsKOMtPr6FK0e5S/Mt wF0syXyKc9KSa8UbN4JVt6UuY64lHNlF9yTroxvwJ940h8UbCgy2Y4Gd/w5KsPUJJHovaCTBTBcXb 2dwzTAJ6DB2Y2JOW70CEwX8NuVgiklc+6tsAbKGAwa6kHHbjfSnNchKY1XrTO8WZFIVX3Hp7k4kvR ljeO9Z2XdAwYsZmd6NkYxw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pSO7H-0007iu-B1; Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:10:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:00:35 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303343 Archived-At: > From: Drew Adams > CC: "raman@google.com" , > "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:00:35 +0000 > > So then what was the "fight" "lost 12 years > ago"? That sentence being inserted into the manual. > It can't have been about that addition (in > Emacs 28) to the doc string. Emacs 28 was > released only a year ago. This text in the manual is from 2011. > But just what's being recommended to users > about this option? What the text says: don't use it in Lisp programs. And please don't expect me to explain more, because I don't know about display-buffer actions more than the next guy. I never use them, and try very hard to stay as far as possible from them, to keep my sanity. > that newer option appears much more complex > to configure; a recipe for getting > something close to the old pop-up-windows t > would be nice. > > Indeed. How to get that behavior, or even > close to it, with `display-buffer-base-action'? > That's never been answered, to my knowledge. My answer: keep using pop-up-windows.