From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkiqicdo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87oc092gy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E380897.5000406@gmx.at> <871ux2nsrw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3AA5DA.8030403@gmx.at> <87mxfnn414.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E3D41F2.8060801@gmx.at> <4E3FA812.3080009@gmx.at> <87zkjkb572.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E3FD5ED.5000206@gmx.at> <4E412E2D.90908@gmx.at> <4E422ECA.2020207@gmx.at> <4E43A253.9040404@gmx.at> <4E59F6D1.5060800@gmx.at> <4E5BE2B9.9030307@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314755042 19919 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 01:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 03:43:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1QyZqP-0004jO-9Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyZqN-00045t-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyZqL-00045k-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyZqK-0001Te-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:54759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QyZqK-0001TW-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from furball ([128.36.14.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7V1hmlp029592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E5BE2B9.9030307@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:04:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143647 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: >> - the functionality of Emacs-23 (i.e. mostly same-frame, same-window, >> other-window, other-frame, dedicated-or-not, existing-window) so as to >> be able to mark the various old config vars as obsolete. > > Without offering anything people can customize instead but a single > option called `display-buffer-alist' to choose one of these functions? > > Bold ;-) I don't think it's even necessary to mark the Emacs 23 variables as obsolete for 24.1; we can save that for Emacs 24.2. Because it is so late in the game, now that we've settled on a workable design the objective should be to get the basic code "infrastructure" and the old the Emacs 23 variables work. Making a rich set of Custom interfaces to that design can wait. For example, I would not spend time on the defcustom definitions for display-buffer-alist and display-buffer-default-rule, if that proves complicated---you could just make them defvars for now.