On Fri Jan 14 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No surprise! -- I've never used a minibuffer-only frame. What kind > > of behavior would you consider appropriate? Use a new frame? > > Call display-buffer or pop-to-buffer (this has the major advantage of > letting the user customize the resulting behavior via > special-display-regexp). There can probably be other circumstances > where split-window fails (dedicated window, maybe, and unsplittable > frames). So better do it for all failure cases than only the ones you > know about.
I've looked at your suggestions more closely. The spirit of the current approach in BBDB for displaying buffers is still the one which I guess was implemented years ago. I guess the above makes more sense. Yet implementing this properly might break again some backward compatibility... (And it might take a little while since I need to understand better how something like special-display-regexp is supposed to work.) Oh well, this new BBDB is still in an alpha stage! > PS: BTW, I suggest the patch below to let users initialize BBDB in their > .emacs with a single `load' (i.e. without messing with load-path > themselves): > > bbdb-autoloads.el: $(DEPSRCS) > @-$(RM) $@; > @echo "(provide 'bbdb-autoloads)" > $@; > + @echo "(add-to-list 'load-path (or (file-name-directory > load-file-name) (car load-path)))\n\n" >> $@; Do I understand correctly that the idea underlying your patch is that the only file the user loads explicitly is bbdb-autoloads.el? The reason I am aksing is that currently bbdb.el loads bbdb-autoloads.el and there are no autoload magic cookies in bbdb.el. Therefore, having only the above patch would not simplify anything. But with the above patch plus autoload cookies added to bbdb.el loading bbd-autoloads.el should indeed be sufficient. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
