Subject: Re: bug#11939: 24.1; `save-buffers-kill-emacs' losesminibufferfocuswhenitcalls`list-processes'

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:30:55 +0200

>> I don't understand why you insist on using, advising, or redefining
 >> `special-display-popup-frame'.  Customizing
 >> `display-buffer-base-action' should be all you want.
 >
 > What part of must-work-with-releases-other-than-just-24 did you not get?
 >
 > You add a new knob, such as `display-buffer-base-action', and you think that
 > that takes care of everything.  Maybe it does for Emacs 24, but the knob does
 > not even exist prior to 24.  You are concerned only with the latest Emacs
 > release.  I, like many (most?) users, am not.

Changing `special-display-popup-frame' for >= 24.2 would not affect its
behavior with < 24.2.

martin