From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9532: 24.0.50; `special-display-regexps' is no longer respected Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:06 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkhxnt7h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <9202F08DB196437E8AD75A3C535E5A7D@us.oracle.com> <87y5xlg9xq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1D79C6CD14EE4C76B74C446E04B9CA65@us.oracle.com> <85680E6E160C472FBC47C2FDA86BA171@us.oracle.com> <874o05x4l6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87obydeoj7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739fp6z4h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316662673 2244 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2011 03:37:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9532@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 05:37:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1R6a6f-0005nC-2P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:37:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6e-0003Vu-2g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6b-0003Vp-CD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6Z-0006QK-SM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6Z-0006QG-Qs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6r-0002Je-Tx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:38:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:38:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9532 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9532-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9532.13166626618876 (code B ref 9532); Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9532) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Sep 2011 03:37:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6X-0002J6-7K for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6a6I-0002Ij-NS for 9532@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (c-24-218-139-29.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [24.218.139.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8M3b7Mn018307 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:37:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8739fp6z4h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:38:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:51643 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > So, you agree to the incompatibility for the non-interactive case? That > is to say, a non-interactive call to switch-to-buffer (and ONLY a > non-interactive call) will now trigger special display. Previously, in > Emacs 23, it would use the selected window. > > If you agree, I'd implement the behavior by adding a new value for > s-t-b's FORCE-SAME-WINDOW argument, `try', which would be the default > for interactive calls. That would mean to first try displaying in the > current selected window directly instead of going through p-t-b. It just occurred to me that it would be safer to leave switch-to-buffer unchanged, and instead reinstate pop-to-buffer-same-window specifically for the callers in question, i.e. the callers who used the same-window-regexps/display-buffer trick. pop-to-buffer-same-window would raise a special window for special buffers, instead of using the selected window; s-t-b would use the selected window, as in Emacs 23. There are only about 9 uses of the same-window-regexps + display-buffer trick which would be changed to use pop-to-buffer-same-window, compared to hundreds of users of switch-to-buffer. So unintended consequences would be much less likely.