*** New display action alist `pop-up-frame-parameters', if non-nil,
specifies frame parameters to give any newly-created frame.
+*** The following variables are obsolete, as they can be replaced by
+appropriate entries in the `display-buffer-alist' function introduced
+in Emacs 24.1:
+
+**** `display-buffer-reuse-frames'
+**** `special-display-regexps'
+**** `special-display-frame-alist'
+**** `special-display-buffer-names'
+**** `special-display-function'
+
** Completion
*** New function `completion-table-with-quoting' to handle completion
+2012-08-26 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
+
+ * window.el (special-display-regexps, special-display-frame-alist)
+ (special-display-buffer-names, special-display-function)
+ (display-buffer-reuse-frames): Mark as obsolete.
+
+ * progmodes/compile.el: Don't use display-buffer-reuse-frames.
+
+ * help.el (help-print-return-message): Don't treat
+ display-buffer-reuse-frames specially.
+
2012-08-26 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
* progmodes/gdb-mi.el (gdb-display-buffer-other-frame-action): New
;; Secondly, the buffer has not been displayed yet,
;; so we don't know whether its frame will be selected.
nil)
- (display-buffer-reuse-frames
- (setq help-return-method (cons (selected-window)
- 'quit-window))
- nil)
((not (one-window-p t))
(setq help-return-method
(cons (selected-window) 'quit-window))
;; the error location if the two buffers are in two
;; different frames. So don't do it if it's not necessary.
pre-existing
- (let ((display-buffer-reuse-frames t)
- (pop-up-windows t))
- ;; Pop up a window.
- (display-buffer (marker-buffer msg)))))
+ (display-buffer (marker-buffer msg))))
(highlight-regexp (with-current-buffer (marker-buffer msg)
;; also do this while we change buffer
(compilation-set-window w msg)
(repeat :tag "Arguments" (sexp)))))
:group 'windows
:group 'frames)
-
-;;;###autoload
+(make-obsolete-variable 'special-display-buffer-names 'display-buffer-alist "24.3")
(put 'special-display-buffer-names 'risky-local-variable t)
(defcustom special-display-regexps nil
(repeat :tag "Arguments" (sexp)))))
:group 'windows
:group 'frames)
+(make-obsolete-variable 'special-display-regexps 'display-buffer-alist "24.3")
+(put 'special-display-regexps 'risky-local-variable t)
(defun special-display-p (buffer-name)
"Return non-nil if a buffer named BUFFER-NAME gets a special frame.
(symbol :tag "Parameter")
(sexp :tag "Value")))
:group 'frames)
+(make-obsolete-variable 'special-display-frame-alist 'display-buffer-alist "24.3")
(defun special-display-popup-frame (buffer &optional args)
"Pop up a frame displaying BUFFER and return its window.
of the window used."
:type 'function
:group 'frames)
+(make-obsolete-variable 'special-display-function 'display-buffer-alist "24.3")
(defcustom same-window-buffer-names nil
"List of names of buffers that should appear in the \"same\" window.
:type 'boolean
:version "21.1"
:group 'windows)
+(make-obsolete-variable 'display-buffer-reuse-frames 'display-buffer-alist "24.3")
(defcustom pop-up-windows t
"Non-nil means `display-buffer' should make a new window."