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: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:27:45 -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> 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 1312424876 8308 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 02:27:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 02:27:56 +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 04:27:52 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 1Qonf5-00044I-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:27:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qonf5-0003YJ-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qonf2-0003Y9-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qonf1-0007AZ-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:16420 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qonf1-0007AO-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:27:47 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EACoDOk5FxKeo/2dsb2JhbABChEejG3iBQAEBBAEjMyMFCwsaAhgOAgIUGA0kh3+vM5FNgSuEB4EQBJ9KhDE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,314,1309752000"; d="scan'208";a="128660006" Original-Received: from 69-196-167-168.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.167.168]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 03 Aug 2011 22:27:45 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6F8D2660CF; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:27:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E3975D2.5000203@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:22:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:142851 Archived-At: >> This had nothing to do with display-buffer-mark-dedicated: when we re-use >> a window for a new buffer, clearly that window is not dedicated to that >> buffer, since it was used for something else already. >>=20 >> Maybe there are cases where you might want to hijack a non-dedicated >> window to show some buffer and make it dedicated, but that sounds like >> a very rare case (I haven't seen such a use-case yet). "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 only = ever marked dedicated (weakly or strongly) upon creation, never when reused. Stefan