Re: patch gud-gdb to respect other-frame-window?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Just a wild guess: maybe the better solution would be for
>> other-frame-window to provide another command to force displaying the
>> buffer in the current window?
>
> As I said in my response to Martin, I think setting the default value of
> 'display-buffer-overriding-action' to 'display-buffer-same-window is the
> appropriate solution. That variable is intended to allow the user to
> override Emac's choices about buffer display, and other-frame-window's
> use of it is consistent with that intent.

No.  That's what `display-buffer-alist` is for.

`display-buffer-overriding-action` is intended for use of Elisp packages
like other-frame-window (notice it's not a defcustom, for example).


        Stefan