From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19461: 25.0.50; doc of `display-buffer-*' functions that take ALIST arg Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:17:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83r262ehgi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <97135b13-1c29-44a9-bfd9-f12966e56cd4@default> <8736ijmh50.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="188124"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 19461@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 03 11:18:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAz-000moG-6Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39048 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAx-0002XN-JH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAt-0002Wx-HK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAs-0003sI-Mp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAs-0003sC-K9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAs-0001yw-ES for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19461 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 19461-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19461.15648238547580 (code B ref 19461); Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19461) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Aug 2019 09:17:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58288 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAP-0001yC-S2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38119) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAO-0001xy-7s for 19461@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAH-0002wS-3U; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1082 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1htqAF-0002bS-F1; Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:17:24 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:58:18 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164421 Archived-At: > From: martin rudalics > Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:58:18 +0200 > Cc: 19461@debbugs.gnu.org > > This problem is with us since day one of that buffer display code. > It's probably due to the fact that the 'display-buffer-*' functions > are inherently internal but never have been marked as such in order to > describe them in the manual and allow users to add new ones. What are the non-internal functions which should be called instead of these ones (and will call these ones when needed)? > > At least one of these doc strings > > should say what it is, and the rest could refer to it. > > Saying what it is is non-trivial, see section 28.13.3 of the Elisp > manual. So I have no good idea how to do what you propose. I gave it a go on the master branch, please take a look.