From 971fcd899bf4d65dae64d5623ea8628ef4d1733c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: martin rudalics Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:07:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update doc-string of display-buffer-alist. --- lisp/window.el | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/lisp/window.el b/lisp/window.el index 2c38212de58..a4baf99d956 100644 --- a/lisp/window.el +++ b/lisp/window.el @@ -3792,6 +3792,14 @@ supported: - t to strongly dedicate the window to the buffer. +A cons cell whose car is `other-window-means-other-frame' and +whose cdr is non-nil means that you want calls of +`display-buffer' with the second argument t or the symbol +`other-window' to display the buffer in another frame. This +means, for example, that you prefer functions like +`find-file-other-window' or `switch-to-buffer-other-window' to +make a new frame instead of a new window on the selected frame. + Usually, applications are free to override the specifiers of `display-buffer-alist' by passing their own specifiers as second argument of `display-buffer'. For every `display-buffer-alist' -- 2.30.2