From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:03 -0400 Message-ID: <878vq937w4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3D41F2.8060801@gmx.at> <4E3FA812.3080009@gmx.at> <87zkjkb572.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E3FD5ED.5000206@gmx.at> <4E412E2D.90908@gmx.at> <4E422ECA.2020207@gmx.at> <4E43A253.9040404@gmx.at> <4E59F6D1.5060800@gmx.at> <4E5BE2B9.9030307@gmx.at> <87zkiqicdo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hb4ythby.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E5DFFE1.6080200@gmx.at> <87hb4xq3jn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314805339 17814 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 15:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , 'Stefan Monnier' , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 17:42:14 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 1Qymvb-00072b-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qymvb-0001Sq-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QymvY-0001SN-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QymvX-0002uI-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:55836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QymvW-0002u9-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-14-41.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7VFg3W6014336 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:42:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87hb4xq3jn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:57:45 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 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:143663 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> We should focus at this point on providing: >> - the functionality of Emacs-23 (i.e. mostly same-frame, same-window, >> other-window, other-frame, dedicated-or-not, existing-window) so as to >> be able to mark the various old config vars as obsolete. > > I agree that it would be expedient to do this before 24.1: to obsolete > the old vars and move their default values to two defcustoms: > `display-buffer-alist' and `display-buffer-default-alist'. Which variables ought to be moved into `display-buffer-alist'? I haven't seen anyone write down a specific list, and one would be helpful.