On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> a) Is all the "window t" stuff necessary?
> Does anyone really care what is "shown" in a buffer unless it's
> displayed in a window?

It's not a question of caring: it's a mechanism.

If you "move to next page" before displaying the buffer, then yes, you
probably care. In most cases you don't, but then this "window t stuff"
shouldn't hurt you one bit either.

I should have said "associated" instead of "displayed".

What I'm trying to say is that a certain window is always selected. If a buffer is not being displayed, I associate data with the selected window, and later show it in the same window, the right thing should happen. If I display it in a different window. Either a) The window already has data, so it will be used. b) The window doesn't have data, so it will take data I have just set.

I think the above behavior is acceptable. I don't know if it's any different from the current.

Evgeni