Can display-buffer-reuse-window support "(inhibit-same-frame . t)"?

Can display-buffer-reuse-window support "(inhibit-same-frame . t)"?

[张海君]

I' like display-buffer-reuse-window to reuse windows only in other frames,
so switch-to-buffer-other-frame will display buffer in other frame unconditionally.

Re: Can display-buffer-reuse-window support "(inhibit-same-frame . t)"?

[Stephen Leake]

张海君 <netjune@icloud.com> writes:

> I' like display-buffer-reuse-window to reuse windows only in other frames,
> so switch-to-buffer-other-frame will display buffer in other frame unconditionally.

Supporting (inhibit-same-frame . t) is a good idea, although I don't see
how to easily implement that in display-buffer-reuse-window.

You could also replace display-buffer-reuse-window with the new
display-buffer-use-some-frame in display-buffer--other-frame-action.

Also see the Gnu ELPA package "other-frame-window".

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: Can display-buffer-reuse-window support "(inhibit-same-frame . t)"?

[martin rudalics]

 > Supporting (inhibit-same-frame . t) is a good idea, although I don't see
 > how to easily implement that in display-buffer-reuse-window.
 >
 > You could also replace display-buffer-reuse-window with the new
 > display-buffer-use-some-frame in display-buffer--other-frame-action.

IIUC ‘display-buffer-use-some-frame’ should handle this case already.
So maybe all we need is to add an appropriate link in the documentation
of ‘display-buffer-reuse-window’.

BTW the doc-string of ‘display-buffer-use-some-frame’ must be fixed:

(defun display-buffer-use-some-frame (buffer alist)
   "Display BUFFER in an existing frame that meets a predicate
\(by default any frame other than the current frame).  If
successful, return the window used; otherwise return nil.

See section D.6 Tips for Documentation Strings of the Elisp manual on
how to do that.

martin