From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <002401c8820f$7d6042c0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <002d01c88231$c6120fe0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205267203 13270 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 20:26:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 21:27:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZB3k-000710-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:26:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZB3C-000383-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZB1v-0002Rn-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZB1t-0002Po-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZB1s-0002Pf-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZB1s-0005wL-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZB1s-0008Vu-9k; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:59:52 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92188 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21531 Archived-At: > It exists just for the sake of symmetry of the command set, > since this is the natural thing for C-x 5 C-o to do. Symmetry? Could you explain what you mean? C-x C-o doesn't to be what you're referring to (it's bound to delete-blank-lines). It is analogous to C-x 4 C-o. The natural meaning of C-x C-o would be "display a buffer in the selected window but don't select that window," which is sort of self contradictory. In fact, that meaning for C-x C-o is older than C-x 4.