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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #598 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:34:30 +0200

>>> Yes, such programming should be fixed.  Fixing requires making it
>>> possible for the application to say what it wants in some other way
>>> (more precise) than by rebinding those vars.  Things like `same-window'
>>> is precisely designed for such uses.
>
>> I suppose you mean 'same-window as possible value of NOT-THIS-WINDOW
>> here.  Overriding the values of customized variables is problematic.
>
> It would not override settings in special-display-buffer-names.

I just wanted to make sure that with "Things like `same-window'" you do
not intend a (same-window . t) entry in `special-display-buffer-names'.

martin

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