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Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Does display-buffer display the buffer or not?
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:06:27 +0100

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:49 PM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> That's a correct conclusion, indeed.  The "creating a new frame" part
>>> would then have to sidestep `pop-up-frame-function', obviously.
>>
>> So the average programmers is supposed to know how to handle this, but
>> those writing for example the routines that shows a backtrace when
>> there is an error are not.
>>
>> Why is the average programmer better at avoiding looping here?
>
> Emacs doesn't pop up the *Backtrace* buffer by default so the "average"
> user is not affected.  And the average user is not supposed to customize
> `pop-up-frame-function' either.  I intended this as a hint for people
> writing, for example, a silly `pop-up-frame-function' so they can find
> the cuplrit easier.  And, obviously, if a function is allowed to return
> nil, the doc-string of the function should say so.

And why is it better not to give an error then?



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