Subject: bug#12854: 24.2.50; `display-buffer-alist': conditions are not handled as documented

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:42:29 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The doc says:
>
> > display-buffer-alist is a variable defined in `window.el'.
> > [...]
> > 
> > Alist of conditional actions for `display-buffer'.
> > This is a list of elements (CONDITION . ACTION), where:
> > 
> >  CONDITION is either a regexp matching buffer names, or a function
> >   that takes a buffer and returns a boolean.

And please, also add to the docstring that the CONDITIONS are tried one
after another until one is fulfilled, and that all other entries are
ignored, or something like that.  Just for completeness.

Thanks,

Michael.