From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2A7EBD.7050300@gmx.at> <87livooqt6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2B158B.1080101@gmx.at> <87wrf8iyse.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2BEED2.5040608@gmx.at> <8739hvu6lh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2C50E6.3020103@gmx.at> <878vrnweju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2D34D7.4040002@gmx.at> <87r55cjvef.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjpsnerd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E355D2C.40709@gmx.at> <87k4axzg7j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oc092gy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E380897.5000406@gmx.at> <4E3975D2.5000203@gmx.at> <4E3AA5F0.4030603@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312488454 30002 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 20:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 22:07:27 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 1Qp4CU-0005kg-5Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4CT-0003EA-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4CQ-0003E4-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4CP-0004sg-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:58594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp4CP-0004sT-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([96.22.109.87]) by VL-VM-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0LPF002DS6K8J590@VL-VM-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2E0E6660CF; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:20 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <4E3AA5F0.4030603@gmx.at> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:142888 Archived-At: >>>> "Dedicated" means "it's only used for that buffer". >>> IIUC you mark the window as weakly dedicated which means that >>> `switch-to-buffer' can use it for showing another buffer. >> I'm not sure what you refer to, but In Emacs=E2=89=A423, a window was on= ly ever >> marked dedicated (weakly or strongly) upon creation, never when reused. > Simply that if a window is weakly dedicated, the meaning of "dedicated" > cited at the top disagrees with the actual meaning. Not quite: whenever the soft-dedication is overridden, the window is (at least should be, barring any bug) un-dedicated. So, as long as it's dedicated "it's only used for that buffer". Stefan