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[PATCH] New option xref-navigation-display-window-action
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> Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 74361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:33:18 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>
> > Speaking of the reference that we used for this solution, it seems that
> >
> > (category . comint)
> >
> > is only mentioned in NEWS and in the obsoletion message for
> > 'display-comint-buffer-action'. There is also a hit for it in the
> > manual, but only in the form "If the caller display-buffer passes a
> > category as a symbol ...", not saying exactly that comint modes do or
> > should do that. Maybe that's something to be fixed as well.
>
> I will see about documenting it properly, if no one beats me to it.
I've added some minor improvements to the documentation of 'category',
but I don't really see what, if anything, needs to be said about
'comint' in particular. AFAIU, there's no significance to the
'comint' symbol itself, it's just a convenience feature to allow users
of comint buffers to customize how those buffers are displayed. (And
I'm not sure I understand how that works, since comint.el doesn't use
that category, AFAICT.) Which reminds me that I was quite unhappy
about the way this feature was documented, and its current state is
not much better, sadly.
So I don't see what I could add more to the documentation at this
time.
If someone explains to me in small words how this works in comint (and
other modes which provide a similar category symbol), I will see about
improving and clarifying the docs.
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