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30.0.92; `display-tex-shell-buffer' contains `(inhibit-same-window . t)'

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From: Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 74457 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74457: 30.0.92; `display-tex-shell-buffer' contains `(inhibit-same-window . t)'
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:03:10 +0100

Am 2024-11-21 um 19:09 schrieb Juri Linkov:
>> `display-tex-shell-buffer' (defined in `window') is marked obsolete with
>> the message "use a `(category . tex-shell)' condition in
>> `display-buffer-alist'."
>>
>> The default value of `display-tex-shell-buffer' contains
>> `(inhibit-same-window . t)'.  I feel that doing
>>
>>    (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
>>                 (cons t (cons #'display-buffer-same-window nil)))
>>
>> should have the desired effect of displaying a TeX shell buffer in the
>> same window (when compiling TeX files in latex-mode), without having to
>> alter the value of the obsolete variable `display-tex-shell-buffer'.
>> But `(inhibit-same-window . t)' in the default value prevents that from
>> happening.  Instead another frame is popped up or reused.
> 
> You can override `inhibit-same-window' by the corresponding category:
> 
>    (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
>                 '((category . tex-shell)
>                   (display-buffer-same-window)
>                   (inhibit-same-window . nil)))

Thank you.  That works.

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