From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question about display-buffer-overriding-action Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 02:10:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87a6ddy0w5.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <871qz21x41.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tubyzlv9.fsf@zoho.eu> <87v8w2id80.fsf@onenetbeyond.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14251"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:k3k86u14nFvoq2IYOqgW1rMjmho= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 22:28:03 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1nYDx4-0003UU-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2022 22:28:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50736 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nYDx3-0007gy-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXuwn-0006Qu-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXuwl-0003kV-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nXuwj-0007z0-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2022 02:10:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:27:18 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136777 Archived-At: dal-blazej wrote: >> (setq display-buffer-alist '((".*" >> display-buffer-same-window))) > > It is bad practice to use `display-buffer-alist` with > a catch-all regexp. Please use instead > `display-buffer-base-action`. Heh, bad practice indeed, check out the docstring for `display-buffer'! For instance: (setq display-buffer-alist ’((".*" display-buffer-at-bottom))) and that's even incorrect Lisp! -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal