GNU bug report logs - #68081
30.0.50; derived-mode and display-buffer-alist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: German Pacenza <germanp82 <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: German Pacenza <germanp82 <at> hotmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 68081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#68081: 30.0.50; derived-mode and display-buffer-alist
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:30:29 -0300

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

> So for Emacs-29 I would recommend to add to the Elisp manual, where it
> says that "Each condition is passed to ‘buffer-match-p’ ...", that using
> 'derived-mode' and 'major-mode' as conditions might not work if
> 'display-buffer' is called before the major mode of the buffer has been
> established.  And I would add a similar remark to the description of
> 'buffer-match-p' itself.

I agree, Info mode is only one of the affected modes, compilation-mode
also shows this behaviour and others might as well.

-- 
German Pacenza
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