GNU bug report logs - #7368
display-buffer may not respect pop-up-frames value

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrey Paramonov <cmr.aparamon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

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

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From: Андрей Парамонов
	<cmr.pent <at> gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 7368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#7368: display-buffer a softly dedicated window
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:58:45 +0300

2010/11/17 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>:
>> I bevieve it's reasonable to override soft-dedication unconditionally.
>> The checks for dedicated != nil seem to be needed only because
>> switch-to-buffer would fail on a "truly dedicated" buffer. However,
>> switch-to-buffer would never fail on a "softly dedicated" buffer,
>
> It could fail because it falls back on `display-buffer' when the
> selected window is a minibuffer window or dedicated.  `pop-to-buffer'
> and the remaining members of the `switch-to-buffer' family always fail
> to use a weakly dedicated window.
>

I mean override soft-dedication *inside* display-buffer. And
switch-to-buffer actually doesn't fail to override "softly dedicated"
window (see my examle).

Andrey Paramonov
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