bug#16767: 24.3.50; `C-x 5 b' for special-display buffers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> In *scratch* evaluate:
>> (setq special-display-regexps '("[ ]?[*][^*]+[*]"))
>>
>> C-x 5 b *scratch*
>>
>> A new frame should be created, showing *scratch*.  None is.
>> Without making *scratch* special-display-p, *scratch* is shown,
>> correctly, in a separate frame.

I can reproduce this in Emacs 28, but reading the doc string of that
variable, I'm not at all sure whether this is supposed to work this way
or not.  And:

[...]

> Bug#9532?  Can you look into `display-buffer--special-action' to see
> what goes wrong?

... it seems this variable was made obsolete in Emacs 24.3?  Martin, is
this a bug, or is this something the user just has to use
`display-buffer-alist' instead to achieve?

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