From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:49:42 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <871uwwcjrp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2A7EBD.7050300@gmx.at> <87livooqt6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2B158B.1080101@gmx.at> <87wrf8iyse.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2BEED2.5040608@gmx.at> <8739hvu6lh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2C50E6.3020103@gmx.at> <878vrnweju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2D34D7.4040002@gmx.at> <87r55cjvef.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjpsnerd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E355D2C.40709@gmx.at> <87k4axzg7j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oc092gy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E380897.5000406@gmx.at> <871ux2nsrw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3AA5DA.8030403@gmx.at> <87mxfnn414.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3D41F2.8060801@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312797516 24239 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2011 09:58:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 11:58:32 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 1QqMbP-0005Nn-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqMbO-0006DF-OP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqMbI-0005wG-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqMbH-0001lQ-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:58:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:34670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqMbG-0001lG-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B386E8088; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 02:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097C1451C33A; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 02:58:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:27:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 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:143009 Archived-At: > I'd make a "display method" be a function, i.e. one of > `display-buffer-reuse-window', `display-buffer-pop-up-window', ... > At which point you can get rid of the idea of a "macro specifier" since > function definitions work just as well. Do you mean that a "display method" should work like `run-hook-with-args-until-success' to try all specified buffer-displaying methods until one of them succeeds?