bug#10238: R in gnus-summary does not pop a frame like F does

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: Emacs,gnus
Version: 24.0.92

I have a special-display-* setting like "\\*.*\\*" that makes all
buffers named with *...* to pop up in dedicated frames.
When I follow-up with F in gnus-summary, this is obeyed just fine and
pops up a new frame where I can comfortably edit my message.
But if I use R instead, the message-mode buffer is placed in the main
Gnus frame rather than in its own frame.  I.e. it disregards
special-display-*.

This is new in Emacs-24 and is caused by the `switch-to-buffer' argument
passed to `message-reply' in gnus-summary-reply since revno 103283
(appended below).


        Stefan


PS: BTW, please keep commit logs comments within the usual 80 (or even
72) columns!


------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 103283
author: Gnus developers <ding@gnus.org>
committer: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Tue 2011-02-15 11:24:37 +0000
message:
  Merge changes made in Gnus trunk.
  
  auth.texi (Help for users): Login collection is "Login" and not "login".
  gnus-sum.el (gnus-propagate-marks): Default to nil.
   (gnus-summary-exit): Kill the correct article buffer on exit from a `C-d' 
group.
  gnus-start.el (gnus-use-backend-marks): Removed, since it duplicates 
gnus-propagate-marks.
  gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-exit-no-update): Restore the group conf before 
killing the buffers so that a non-full window conf gets handled correctly.
   (gnus-summary-exit): Ditto.
   (gnus-summary-read-group-1): Ditto.
  nntp.el (nntp-retrieve-group-data-early): Reinstate the two-part async code 
again so that we can debug it properly.
  message.el (message-reply): Take an optional switch-buffer parameter so that 
Gnus window confs are respected better.
  auth-source.el (auth-source-secrets-search): Use `delete-dups', `append 
mapcar', and `butlast' instead of `remove-duplicates', `mapcan', and `subseq'.
   (auth-sources, auth-source-backend-parse, auth-source-secrets-search): Login 
collection is "Login" and not "login".
  gnus-art.el (article-update-date-lapsed): Don't bug out when updating 
multiple headers.




In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.8)
 of 2011-12-06 on faina
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11101901
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-Wall -Wno-pointer-sign 
-DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE -DSYNC_INPUT -DENABLE_CHECKING -DXASSERTS -DFONTSET_DEBUG 
-g -O1 -I/usr/include/GNUstep' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/monnier/src/Xaw3d' 
'CPPFLAGS=-I/home/monnier/src/Xaw3d' '--enable-maintainer-mode''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: fr_CH.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  electric-pair-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  url-handler-mode: t
  global-reveal-mode: t
  reveal-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
" SPC t o SPC b e SPC a SPC r e g u l a r SPC e x p 
r e s s e i o n <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> i o n , SPC t h e n SPC i t SPC g e t s 
SPC a SPC l o t SPC m o r e SPC i n t e r e s t i n 
g . <right> <up> <left> <right> <up> <left> <right> 
<down> <left> <right> <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<right> <right> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> C-e <right> 
<up> <left> <right> <up> <left> <right> <down> <left> 
<right> <down> <left> <right> <down> <down> , SPC y 
o u SPC c a n SPC <M-backspace> <backspace> ' l l SPC 
p r o b a b l y SPC h a v e SPC t o SPC d o SPC t h 
e SPC s e a r c h SPC " b y SPC h a n d " SPC w i t 
h o u t SPC u s i n g SPC E m a c s ' s SPC b u i l 
t i n SPC s e a r c h SPC f u n c t i o n a l i t y 
. <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <left> <right> 
<down> <left> <right> <down> <left> <right> <down> 
<down> <left> <right> <down> <left> <right> <right> 
<right> <return> <return> M-i S t e f a n C-c C-c n 
k q s n <return> k q s <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> M-x r e p o - e m - b u <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Saving file /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld...
Wrote /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld
Saving /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld...done
nnimap read 0k
Expiring articles...done
Saving /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld...
Saving file /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld...
Wrote /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld
Saving /home/monnier/var/newsrc.eld...done
byte-code: Beginning of buffer

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-com hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-ftp hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-ftp
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-rmail hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-rmail
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mhe hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-mhe
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gui hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-gui
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-print hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-print
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-w3 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-w3
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-sc hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-sc
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-whois hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-whois
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-snarf hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-snarf
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-merge hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-merge
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-vm
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-migrate hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-migrate
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-gnus
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-hooks hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-hooks

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