From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:12:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm53PAfrH9rSgdDkwEP5S5RxuUh=whDSCRPMcTTZLkRjoyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5167D3B7.2080408@gmx.at>
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
> `switch-to-buffer' uses `pop-to-buffer' to make sure the window
> displaying the buffer is selected. You use `display-buffer' which
> doesn't necessarily make the window selected - IIUC you rely on the
> window manager to select the window.
yes, you understand correctly.
> Other from that I don't see anything hackish with your approach if the
> idea is to make `switch-to-buffer' do what you want when it's called
> from other code (which ideally should not happen). In this case you
> might also want to advice `switch-to-buffer-other-window' accordingly.
I do want that precisely. `display-buffer-alist' apparently allows me (a LOT of)
control how `display-buffer' but not when it is called. The advice is because I
want ibuffer and ido to work with this as well.
The hackish part is was also that I call the predicate twice, but I can simplify
that...
(defadvice switch-to-buffer (around joaot/browse-buffer-maybe activate)
(if (joaot/browse-buffer-p buffer-or-name nil)
(let ((display-buffer-alist `(("" .
(joaot/browse-buffer-in-special-frame . nil)))))
(display-buffer buffer-or-name))
ad-do-it))
However, I still have to have to set `display-buffer-alist' globally for those
functions who call `display-buffer' directly, like `describe-function' does for
"*Help*" buffers, for example.
(setq display-buffer-alist
`((joaot/browse-buffer-p . (joaot/browse-buffer-in-special-frame . nil))))
I'm quite happy with this functionally, and find this feature is quite useful to
keep focus on one frame, but be able to look at a secondary frame on a second
monitor for reference and only switching to it occasionally.
Ideally I would want anywthing with the meaning "switch to some buffer" (be it
`pop-to-buffer', `switch-to-buffer-other-window`, `display-buffer`, etc...) to
be be hookable at some common point, much as is already done with `display-
buffer'.
Or alternatively, and maybe simpler, if `display-buffer' is so powerful, why
can't it be used by `switch-to-buffer' and friends? I know `diplay-buffer''s
semantics are "display without selecting", but can't those be relaxed and the
"without selecting" part be just the default?
Another, distinct, small problem persists, and I suspect it has to do with not
understanding what the various alists are in the documentation of
`display-buffer'
and `display-buffer-alist'...
Specifically, how can I prevent `display-buffer' from stopping at one of
the actions that I specify in `display-buffer-alist'? For example,
`describe-function' shows me the buffer on the secondary "browse" frame" but
still keeps the current pop-to-frame behaviour. I'm going to have a look at
`display-buffer-overriding-alist', maybe that will do it.
Thanks
--
João Távora
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 9:28 frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame martin rudalics
2013-04-12 12:12 ` João Távora [this message]
2013-04-12 13:13 ` João Távora
2013-04-12 14:15 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <CALDnm50Q=eNA6rgUS-DQD2RLuE=kyizGpYWyENVU=2Py+-MTig@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-14 18:42 ` João Távora
2013-04-15 7:11 ` martin rudalics
2013-04-12 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-13 8:01 ` martin rudalics
2013-04-14 18:18 ` João Távora
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-10 20:52 João Távora
2013-04-10 21:30 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-11 1:22 ` João Távora
2013-04-11 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-11 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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