thank you, that was exactly the line that I was looking for.
> Thanks for the help. The problem was with display-buffer-for-wide-screen.elWhat precisely failed? I didn't look at it but it hooks in at a lower
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/download/display-buffer-for-wide-screen.el
>
> Once I removed that from my .emacs, things worked fine.
level (namely that of `display-buffer-function') so it should still work
with Emacs 24.Elisp code should not do that. `display-buffer-alist' is reserved for
> I would still like to see a proper example of elisp code setting the
> display-buffer-alist.
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