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: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:43 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312303315 14393 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2011 16:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:41:55 +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 Tue Aug 02 18:41:50 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 1QoI2O-0005tx-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoI2O-00013k-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoI2L-00013S-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoI2K-0006kR-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:64497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoI2K-0006ja-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.80.89.35]) by vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LPB004P97NWQQ70@vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id ECF33660CF; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:41:43 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <4E380897.5000406@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:142712 Archived-At: > don't understand. (Maybe I exaggerate here but at least I don't > understand them as recent problems with reusing frames and marking > reused windows as dedicated shows.) This had nothing to do with display-buffer-mark-dedicate: 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. 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". Stefan