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: how about a find-library-other-window command? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:54:35 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bqfb7grk.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182290679 31659 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 22:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 00:04:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0loS-0007kM-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0loR-0002VH-JB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0loP-0002VC-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0loN-0002Ud-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0loN-0002Ua-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0loM-0002VI-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I0loH-000CNz-9W; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:04:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 16\:41\:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 1e897a521fdb5eac39b1f944f187ca57 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1157 [June 19 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73341 Archived-At: > - make use a new command like `switch-or-pop-to-buffer' which behavior > depends on a "config var". Maybe some more clear and short name like `show-buffer'. > - add prefix keys such as C-x 4 which can force one of the two behaviors for > the next command (or maybe just one prefix key C-x 4 which toggles the > behavior of the next command). C-x 4 or some such prefix could automatically add the command's context (buffer name + this-command) to the config variable, so the next call without C-x 4 will reuse this preference once explicitly defined by calling the command with the C-x 4 prefix. > - make the "config var" sufficiently complex that it doesn't just choose > "always pop" or "always switch" but can choose different defaults for > different commands. How to do that is up-in-the-air: > - Maybe switch-or-pop-to-buffer would look at this-command (yuck) and do as > assq search in a config alist based on that. > - Or switch-or-pop-to-buffer would take an additional argument to specify > the key to use an the alist search. > - It would probably be good to be able to specify not just different > behaviors depending on the command but also depending on the buffer in > which it is executed (e.g. "always use switch when done inside a *Help* > buffer"). If there are too many parameter types used in the config variable (the target buffer name, the source buffer name, this-command), another option would be to allow a predicate function in such a config variable. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/