bug#45688: 28.0.50; New action for display-buffer?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I use it myself, when some buffer pops up in a window I use for
> another buffer, and fails to pop down (example: *Shell Command
> Output*).  But then why would I want the buffer be displayed in a
> random window?

Not in a random window, but not in the last-chosen window, either.  That
way, if you're `display-buffer'-ing a number of buffers, you'll get them
all in the other windows, instead of reusing the same one.

> I guess I'm missing something here, if this feature is deemed so
> important that it caused jwz to post a complete blog about that.

It would have been nice if he had been more specific; yes.  But the
XEmacs behaviour seems quite natural to me -- if you have three windows,
and you're working in one, and you want to look at two other buffers at
the same time, then the XEmacs `display-buffer' does the right thing for
that.

As Martin explained, display-buffer-use-some-window almost does this,
but since switching to the buffer doesn't count as "use", it doesn't
work for this particular use case.

Adding another action here (that just calls
display-buffer-use-some-window, but then marks the window as having been
used) seems trivial, so I think I'll try doing that and see what that
feels like.

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