Re: Pretest begins end-June

[Stefan Monnier]

> The breakage occurs because `display-buffer' now expects that _all_
> directives wrt where and how to display the buffer must be passed via a
> list in the second argument (which was formerly called `other-window'
> and is now called `specifiers') and the user customization of the
> behavior of `display-buffer' occurs independently in a new option called
> `display-buffer-alist'.

This is a good change, yes, thank you.

> (let ((pop-up-frames t))
>   (pop-to-buffer buffer))

The part I don't understand is why we can't preserve backward
compatibility for such code.


        Stefan