From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 27717@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27717: other-window when there is no other window
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:28:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <596B23A8.6080801@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efthjxb2.fsf@jidanni.org>
> C-x o runs the command other-window.
>
> Alas, if there is no other window, it does nothing.
>
> It doesn't even print a message "no other window". BUG!
>
> Better yet in this case would be just switch to an other buffer (the
> same buffer that switch-to-buffer asks the user about, but without
> asking the user.)
>
> And only if there is also no other buffer, then print the message.
The documentation of ‘other-window’ contains the sentence "COUNT zero
means do not skip any window, so select the selected window." which
clearly indicates that "doing nothing" is a valid action in this case.
C-x 5 o behaves in a similar way.
Admittedly, saying that ‘other-window’ does "Select another window in
cyclic ordering of windows." is misleading.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-16 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-15 19:48 bug#27717: other-window when there is no other window 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-07-16 8:28 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2017-07-16 15:13 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-07-16 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-16 16:11 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-07-16 19:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-16 23:31 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-07-17 7:03 ` martin rudalics
2017-07-17 8:18 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-08-17 23:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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