GNU bug report logs - #33870
27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable

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Message #314 received at 33870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 33870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, joaotavora <at> gmail.com,
 dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#33870: 27.0.50; xref-goto-xref not configurable
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:46:16 +0200

>> Then two new functions will have consistent names:
>>
>> display-buffer-in-direction
>> display-buffer-in-window
>
> Just that the first is an action function while the second isn't.

Like display-buffer-in-previous-window is an action function
that takes an alist entry `previous-window', couldn't
display-buffer-in-window be an action function that takes
an alist entry with the window where it display the buffer?
But it seems this is not needed.

>>> 'from-window' is not bad.  Maybe also 'reference-window'.  We don't
>>> use such a term in windmove.el.  There we just say that "WINDOW is the
>>> window that movement is relative to".
>>
>> relative-window?
>
> Not really good IMHO.

Agreed.

>>>> Ok, like (direction . up) and all aliases.
>>>
>>> 'direction' should be OK then.
>>
>> Or 'dir' for short.
>
> dir can be misread as directory.

Agreed.

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