Subject: bug#19571: 25.0.50; `display-buffer-alist': ALIST is completely undefined

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:38:05 +0200

> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 18:12:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> 
> ALIST is mentioned only here:
> 
>  ACTION is a cons cell (FUNCTION . ALIST), where FUNCTION is a
>   function or a list of functions.  Each such function should
>   accept two arguments: a buffer to display and an alist of the
>   same form as ALIST.  See `display-buffer' for details.
> 
> "of the same form as ALIST"?  Really?  What form is that?  Where is
> *anything* said about the form of ALIST?

It's an alist.  And you are referred to the documentation of
'display-buffer' for details.  I see nothing wrong with that.