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Re: Question about display-buffer-overriding-action

From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Question about display-buffer-overriding-action
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 02:10:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
dal-blazej wrote:

>> (setq display-buffer-alist '((".*"
>> display-buffer-same-window)))
>
> It is bad practice to use `display-buffer-alist` with
> a catch-all regexp. Please use instead
> `display-buffer-base-action`.

Heh, bad practice indeed, check out the docstring for
`display-buffer'!

  For instance:

    (setq display-buffer-alist ’((".*" display-buffer-at-bottom)))

and that's even incorrect Lisp!

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