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Add buffer-matching functionality

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Message #11 received at 54296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 54296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 21:34:19 +0100

>> Either way I would consider these functions useful and would have wanted
>> to use them in my own code many times before.  While difficult, it might
>> also be useful for things like display-buffer-alist (the issue is that
>> a function as a condition in display-buffer-alist has to accept two
>> arguments, while the proposed patch only takes one).
>
> Hm...  how would this be used with display-buffer-alist, then?  (And
> perhaps Martin has some comments; added to the CCs.)

Either add an optional second argument to 'buffer-match' or add to
'display-buffer-alist' an entry that uses a function as condition that
calls 'buffer-match' with the first argument and returns non-nil if
'buffer-match' reports a match.  I see no issue here.

martin

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