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Re: frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a sp


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: frames dedicated to buffers, or, always see specific buffers in a specific frame
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:01:50 +0200

> I don't see why that would be necessary: switch-to-buffer-other-window
> calls display-buffer (well, pop-to-buffer) so it should honor
> display-buffer-alist.

Correct, obviously.

> Other than switch-to-buffer they all go through display-buffer and obey
> the display-buffer-* hooks.
>
> switch-to-buffer is special because there are various circumstances
> where it's more important for it to only affect the selected-window then
> it is to display the specified buffer.

Ideally, `switch-to-buffer' does not get called from Lisp code.
Unfortunately, there are too many instances of such calls to change them
all.

martin



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