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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 4041@debbugs.gnu.org, Steve Yegge <stevey@google.com>
Subject: bug#4041: 23.0.92; Emacs 23:  buffer point is no longer frame-local
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:46:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hb3lt6xv.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8EA522.9090300@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:07:14 +0200")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> We'd have to handle two issues:
>
> (1) If a buffer is shown nowhere else and you `switch-to-buffer' to it,
>     you probably want it to show it at the actual position of `point' -
>     whatever that means for you.
>
> (2) If the buffer is already shown on another frame with `point' visible
>     it makes sense to `switch-to-buffer' at some position it earlier had
>     on the present frame.
>
> Whatever we did here, it would make `switch-to-buffer' behave
> inconsistently.

But it'd be the natural thing to do, I think.

> I still think that the OP instead of
>
>> 8) switch to buffer *scratch* (or any other buffer)
>> 9) switch to buffer BUF
>
> should switch to the previous buffer in 9).

People commonly use `C-x b' to switch buffers...

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05  0:17 bug#4041: 23.0.92; Emacs 23: buffer point is no longer frame-local Steve Yegge
2009-08-06  9:33 ` martin rudalics
2011-09-17  7:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17  8:43   ` martin rudalics
2011-09-18  8:03     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 22:14     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-07  7:07       ` martin rudalics
2011-10-07 10:46         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-10-07 17:00           ` martin rudalics
2011-10-07 21:09             ` Steve Yegge
2011-10-08  6:23               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08  6:32                 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08  6:23               ` Leo
2011-10-08 13:23               ` martin rudalics
2011-10-08 14:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 15:00                   ` martin rudalics
2011-10-08 15:34                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 15:55                       ` martin rudalics
2011-10-08 17:07                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 17:53                           ` martin rudalics
2011-10-08 20:35                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-09  8:33                               ` martin rudalics
2011-10-09 17:45                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-10 12:57                                   ` martin rudalics
2011-10-11 12:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12  0:35                 ` Steve Yegge
2011-10-12  1:19                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12  3:52                     ` Steve Yegge
2011-10-12  9:48                     ` martin rudalics
2011-10-12 13:11                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 13:39                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 14:25                           ` martin rudalics
2012-10-05 10:08                         ` martin rudalics
2012-10-10 10:22                           ` martin rudalics
2011-10-12  6:52                   ` martin rudalics

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