From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question about display-buffer-overriding-action Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:14:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87r170mdkh.fsf@web.de> References: <871qz21x41.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tubyzlv9.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37088"; 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:muGTA77f6iBYrNQJRjLOUpYtBXk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 23:15:50 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 1nUyPO-0009Wz-Dh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:15:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60918 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUyPM-0002wW-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUyOL-0002wN-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUyOJ-00089m-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nUyOI-00082q-3f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:14:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, 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-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:136655 Archived-At: Eduardo Ochs writes: > This is not a universal solution. It doesn't work for man, Maybe it works for women? > Try: > > (let ((display-buffer-alist '((".*" display-buffer-same-window)))) > (man "cat")) > [...] Note that `man' is a special (and rare) case: Emacs `man' works asynchronously; when the buffer has been rendered and the result gets displayed, your `let' is long gone. See `Man-notify-when-ready' and `Man-notify-method' for how the buffer gets displayed. You probably need an appropriate man buffer specific entry in the top-level binding of `display-buffer-alist' to get what you want. Michael