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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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Message #613 received at 1806 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:01:41 -0400

>>> 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'.
>> The way I see it, the `other-window' argument to pop-to-buffer should be
>> able to provide such settings as well.  I.e. they could be provided both
>> by the user in s-d-b-n and by the code in other-window.  And of course,
>> application-provided settings would only take precedence over global
>> settings and not over user cutomizations.
> Currently, OTHER-WINDOW non-nil is an application-provided setting

Right, and it will stay this way.

> and takes precedence over user customizations.

We would want to change that, then.

Note that the only customization it can override is the `same-window'
one IIUC, which is pretty new, so it currently only overrides user
customizations in very rare cases and I'm not sure that it's a feature
rather than a bug.


        Stefan

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