From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch gud-gdb to respect other-frame-window? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86muuaq7m8.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <864lggqxpl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532982406 8465 195.159.176.226 (30 Jul 2018 20:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:26:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 22:26:42 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEkb-00022d-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:26:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEmg-0006xp-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEmY-0006wy-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEmU-0001il-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47032 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEmU-0001hp-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkEkI-0001jU-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:26:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:I5cjAJ3+JsWQWmdvFWtNbjt/NLw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228016 Archived-At: >> Just a wild guess: maybe the better solution would be for >> other-frame-window to provide another command to force displaying the >> buffer in the current window? > > As I said in my response to Martin, I think setting the default value of > 'display-buffer-overriding-action' to 'display-buffer-same-window is the > appropriate solution. That variable is intended to allow the user to > override Emac's choices about buffer display, and other-frame-window's > use of it is consistent with that intent. No. That's what `display-buffer-alist` is for. `display-buffer-overriding-action` is intended for use of Elisp packages like other-frame-window (notice it's not a defcustom, for example). Stefan