From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 4293@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4293: 23.1; use pop-to-buffer, not switch...other-window, in bookmark.el
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9E9387.5010106@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EDDA64C33FD4884B064564DC880B5F3@us.oracle.com>
>> 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.
I thought you wanted to avoid popping up a new frame. At least in your
first mail you said "pop-to-buffer DTRT: it reuses the existing frame".
> 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.
If you have `display-buffer-reuse-frames' set to nil, `pop-to-buffer'
will not reuse another frame displaying that buffer either. Please tell
which specific detail of `switch-to-buffer-other-window' you dislike in
the present use case. Note: It can't be the `other-window' argument,
because in that case we'd have to change the names of the respective
bookmark functions.
martin
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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
2009-09-02 15:47 ` martin rudalics [this message]
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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