Re: master 18b680cfd1: Fix bug#52467 by adding a new custom variable 'display-comint-buffer-action'

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.01.2022 21:40, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Instead of this, all calls could add
>  > a special tag:
>  >
>  >    (pop-to-buffer "*inferior-lisp*" '(nil (comint . t)))
>  >
>  > Then a condition predicate could check for this tag:
>  >
>  >    (defun display-buffer-comint (buffer-name action)
>  >      (assq 'comint action))
>  >
>  > and the user can customize all comint commands with:
>  >
>  >    (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
>  >                 '(display-buffer-comint
>  >                   (display-buffer-same-window
>  >                    . ((reusable-frames . 0)
>  >                       (inhibit-same-window . nil)))))
>
> If we do that we should first make a list of possible tags like 'occur'
> or 'info' and check whether we should provide similar functions for them
> too.

Perhaps the customized value structure should simply refer to major mode(s)?

Then there won't be a need to create a predefined list with mappings.