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24.1; `occur-edit-mode' is completely broken if `pop-up-frames'=t

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 12139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12139: 24.1; `occur-edit-mode' is completely broken if `pop-up-frames'=t
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:28:21 +0800

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It's a long-standing issue with display-buffer.  The docstring of
> display-buffer says
>
>    Display BUFFER-OR-NAME in some window, without selecting it.
>
> But when pop-up-frames is non-nil, display-buffer does explicitly select
> the window, via raising its frame.  One could argue that this is
> desirable because the frame that is being re-used might be obscured or
> out of sight, but it interferes with Lisp callers which want to display
> stuff in another window without losing focus from the current one (which
> is the main role of display-buffer).

On reflection, I think this would be a useful application of the new
display action parameter mechanism.  So I introduced a new
`inhibit-switch-frame' action alist entry; callers like occur-edit,
which require keeping focus can supply this parameter, can use this to
tell `display-buffer' to avoid stealing focus away to another frame,
even at the expense of obscuring the displayed window.

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