From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#45688: 28.0.50; New action for display-buffer? 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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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no