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Suppressing asynchronous command output

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Message #86 received at 18133 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18133 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: Re: bug#18133: Suppressing asynchronous command output
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:14:56 +0100

>>     It would be nice if the user only had to change one thing to enable hiding
>>     the async output buffer until there is output. If we only added the
>>     function to display-buffer--action-function-custom-type, the user still has
>>     to manually add the right buffer name pattern and the action to
>>     display-buffer-alist.
>
> Yes, I meant to add a value that would handle "*Async Shell Output*"
> buffer like described above.

The type specification of ‘display-buffer-alist’ goes as:

  :type `(alist :key-type
		(choice :tag "Condition"
			regexp
			(function :tag "Matcher function"))
		:value-type ,display-buffer--action-custom-type)

This associates regexps/matcher functions with actions.  How, in such a
specification, can I splice in a buffer name associated with a key
_without_ assigning that pair to the default of ‘display-buffer-alist’?
Maybe I'm missing some detail of the customization interface.

>> And how should ‘display-buffer’ know whether "there's some material" in
>> that buffer?
>
> That's up to Reuben, I thought he had this figured out already.

Whatever he figures out, it will affect the decision whether to display
the buffer initially.  You can decide that via a matcher function in
‘display-buffer-alist’ (if the buffer name equals "..." and the buffer
is not empty display it, otherwise not) but then it would be easier to
add a new action function like ‘display-buffer-if-not-empty’.

martin

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