From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12848: 24.2.50; Doc: give an example for a typical entry of `display-buffer-alist' Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:55:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2zbu3uv.fsf@web.de> References: <87wqxuxufe.fsf@web.de> <50A65C8E.3080004@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353200116 18779 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2012 00:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:55:16 +0000 (UTC) To: 12848@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 01:55:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZtAU-0003hI-Mt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZtAK-0004rc-J9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZt9o-0007Cw-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:52468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZt9o-0007Cq-KB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([82.113.121.80]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MYeys-1Tnemu1SCY-00VMlg; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:54:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50A65C8E.3080004@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:32:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:mb/Gv/50KIL9KFITOXuhPjhMhv3O+0P7Em/i0wQsfV7 rG2RtGmqarBNklhIU/ZEAaFF2RJMxfhO94a78qTDaY+pwl5Hj2 ZitCD3SNFMNcmTGy0k/cERSeTdxH3a8lvCKwjpYY9v0LtfNkeI sdEOA9OKhZq10Hgw1f9p/FwzgBm2JFr50C2Vz22fSTrsKgvspi vHueTAwWLUDDnCZsxZZ/C9TfQLKFIiefba2zYM9IQc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67089 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: > I tried to provide an example in revision 110885 on the > Emacs-24 release branch. Please have a look. Thanks. I think your example is good and covers everything necessary. It's also consistent with the code. Very good. Only one part is a bit unclear to me, namely the last sentence of this paragraph: | (display-buffer | (get-buffer-create "*foo*") | '((display-buffer-reuse-window | display-buffer-pop-up-window | display-buffer-pop-up-frame) | (reusable-frames . 0) | (window-height . 10) (window-width . 40))) | | Evaluating the form above will cause `display-buffer' to proceed as | follows: If `*foo*' already appears on a visible or iconified frame, it | will reuse its window. Otherwise, it will try to pop up a new window | or, if that is impossible, a new frame. If all these steps fail, it | will try to use some existing window. In this case, the behavior depends on `display-buffer-base-action' and `display-buffer-fallback-action', right? Maybe we should mention that, to make "try to use some existing window" a bit more specific. Many thanks, Michael.