Re: master 8a88f3ed5ae: Add `outline-occur' command and `display-buffer-default-alist' variable

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:31:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
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Juri Linkov [07/Aug  8:43pm +03] wrote:
>>> Thus we need a new variable like 'display-buffer-overriding-action',
>>> but with both condition and action like in 'display-buffer-alist'.
>>> So the complete precedence should look like this:
>>>
>>>   • The variable ‘display-buffer-overriding-action’.
>>>   • The variable ‘display-buffer-overriding-alist’.   NEW!
>>>   • The user option ‘display-buffer-alist’.
>>>   • The variable ‘display-buffer-default-alist’.
>>>   • The ACTION argument.
>>
>> I don't think it is clear to me what we are solving, if we are keeping
>> without-local-variable-queries.  In that case we might as well just keep
>> display-buffer-overriding-action?
>
> Indeed, no need to replace 'display-buffer-overriding-action' here,
> since it should prevent all possible windows from being displayed.
> A new 'display-buffer-overriding-alist' might be required in other cases
> where a known window category should be disabled selectively.

Okay, thanks for confirming.

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Sean Whitton