Support for `display-buffer-no-window`

[kaushalmodi]

Hi,

Sorry for the stream of issues I am opening today.

I am trying to see if I can use this to replace all of the display-buffer-alist and popwin customizations in my emacs init.

For this request, I was trying to get rid of the below from my init but I see that currently shackle doesn't have an option to open a buffer in the background (or does it?). For example, I would always like to open the Async Shell Command buffers to open in the background and not occupy any of the visible windows:

;; Don't display async command execution windows
;; http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/5554/115
(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
             (cons "\\*Async Shell Command\\*.*"
                   (cons #'display-buffer-no-window nil)))

[kaushalmodi]

Probably this issue is covered by this issue ( #15 ) you already opened.

[wasamasa]

Yup, that's right. I'd like to gather other display actions there to have an idea whether there is a need for special actions or implementing a generic interface for more obscure customization suffices.

[kaushalmodi]

The display-buffer-no-window option is still not implemented; is that correct?

The display-buffer-alist in the above example makes sure that the buffer opens in the background (not in any of the visible windows).

[wasamasa]

That's right. I think I'll settle for implementing an :ignore as I've already implemented the :other key and nothing else worthwhile looking popped up.

[kaushalmodi]

Minor suggestion: How about calling it :background; as in that window will always open in the background.

[wasamasa]

Well, that's a bit longish and suggests there's :foreground which isn't a thing.