thank you, that was exactly the line that I was looking for.
I wasn't thinking elisp code as in an extension module, more along the
lines of elisp code that I would enter into my .emacs .   Especially for
something like display-buffer-alist I really dislike the M-x customize
functionality


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:22 AM, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> > Thanks for the help.  The problem was with display-buffer-for-wide-**
> screen.el
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-**bin/wiki/download/display-**
> buffer-for-wide-screen.el<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/download/display-buffer-for-wide-screen.el>
> >
> > Once I removed that from my .emacs, things worked fine.
>
> What precisely failed?  I didn't look at it but it hooks in at a lower
> level (namely that of `display-buffer-function') so it should still work
> with Emacs 24.
>
>
> > I would still like to see a proper example of elisp code setting the
> > display-buffer-alist.
>
> Elisp code should not do that.  `display-buffer-alist' is reserved for
> users as in
>
> (customize-set-variable
>  'display-buffer-alist '((".*" . (display-buffer-same-window . nil))))
>
> Unfortunately, so far there's no common agreement on what the ALIST
> argument of `display-buffer-same-window' is supposed to accomplish.
>
> martin
>