From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 16767@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#16767: 24.3.50; `C-x 5 b' for special-display buffers
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:04:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yvce8ah.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b306c6f-8c25-b8c2-0390-305e5c42036d@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 2021 10:15:12 +0200")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
> C-x 5 b with `special-display-regexps' customized in a way that matches
> the name of the buffer to switch to, behaves as advertised. In the case
> at hand, it assumes that if *scratch* already appears in a window,
> *scratch* has been "displayed specially" in that window and consequently
> reuses that window as prescribed. Popping up a separate window or frame
> for *scratch* would be wrong.
Yes, I think that sounds correct to me.
> Concluding: This is "not a bug" and all statements made in the original
> report are based on a misunderstanding of the now obsolete concept of
> the special display of buffers. It's probably about time to remove that
> code from base.
It was made obsolete in 24.3... how far have we gotten in removing
obsolete things now? 23.x? So perhaps we should start removing 24.x
things in the Emacs 29 cycle.
Anyway, since this seems like it's working as designed, I'm closing this
bug report.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-15 22:29 bug#16767: 24.3.50; `C-x 5 b' for special-display buffers Drew Adams
2014-02-16 10:32 ` martin rudalics
2014-02-16 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-16 17:14 ` martin rudalics
2014-02-16 17:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-06 9:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-06 14:08 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-06 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-06 19:08 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-07 8:15 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-07 15:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-07 15:44 ` bug#16767: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-07 17:26 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-07 19:12 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-08 8:27 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-08 16:34 ` Drew Adams
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