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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'martin rudalics'" <rudalics@gmx.at>, <4293@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Subject: bug#4293: 23.1; use pop-to-buffer, not switch...other-window, in bookmark.el
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:39:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0EDDA64C33FD4884B064564DC880B5F3@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9E41E3.1000201@gmx.at>

>  > In bookmark-jump-other-window and bookmark-bmenu-other-window we call
>  > switch-to-buffer-other-window. We should use pop-to-buffer, instead.
>  >
>  > With non-nil pop-up-frames, switch-to-buffer-other-window creates a
>  > new frame each time, even if the destination buffer is 
>  > already showing in some frame. pop-to-buffer DTRT: it reuses
>  > the existing frame.
> 
> I'm not sure what the problem is here.  
> `switch-to-buffer-other-window'
> has a clear purpose - do _not reuse the selected window_ (which is the
> bookmarks window, IIUC).  OTOH `display-buffer-reuse-frames' non-nil
> should assure that another frame is reused.

Users should not have to customize a global variable, to prevent a new frame
from being used in particular places like this.

As Stefan says repeatedly (paraphrasing), switch-to-buffer-other-window is
almost always the wrong thing to do, and should be replaced in most places by
pop-to-buffer.

Use of switch-to-buffer-other-window is a bug in general, typically made by
someone who doesn't use non-nil pop-up-frames.

In this particular context, there is no reason to use
switch-to-buffer-other-frame.






  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87skdymwe0.fsf@red-bean.com>
2009-08-30 14:52 ` bug#4293: 23.1; use pop-to-buffer, not switch...other-window, in bookmark.el Drew Adams
2009-09-02  9:58   ` martin rudalics
2009-09-02 14:39     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-09-02 15:47       ` martin rudalics
2009-09-02 16:16         ` Drew Adams
2009-09-02 16:45           ` martin rudalics
2009-09-02 17:56             ` Drew Adams
2009-09-02 21:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-02 21:29         ` Drew Adams
2009-10-05  2:10   ` bug#4293: marked as done (23.1; use pop-to-buffer, not switch...other-window, in bookmark.el) Emacs bug Tracking System

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