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28.0.50; New action for display-buffer?

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 45688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45688: 28.0.50; New action for display-buffer?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:49:52 +0100

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

> Sorry, I didn't notice that you've pushed that already.  So
>
> +To change which window is used, set `display-buffer-base-action'
> +to a list containing one of these \"action\" functions:
>
> is another wrong interpretation

:-)

> - a user should not set (or at least not start with setting)
> `display-buffer-base-action'.  The user's domain is
> `display-buffer-alist' the application's domain is the ACTION
> argument.  Please try to stick to these two, maybe not even mentioning
> the rest at all.

I've now changed it to `display-buffer-alist'.

By the way, the example in the Emacs manual is this:

(customize-set-variable
 'display-buffer-alist
 '("\\*scratch\\*" (display-buffer-same-window)))

Which isn't an alist?

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