From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set_window_buffer Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:05:03 +0200 Message-ID: <48CAAF4F.7060703@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221242914 3405 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 18:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 20:09:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KeD5D-00079w-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:09:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeD4D-0001sP-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeD48-0001rD-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeD47-0001ps-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32784 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeD47-0001pl-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58445) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KeD47-00022L-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2008 18:08:15 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-50-244.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.50.244]) [62.47.50.244] by mail.gmx.net (mp067) with SMTP; 12 Sep 2008 20:08:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/wlrEoeqbwbvPcMbF38R9XcnJBCcySNXwyoeCkac /nM6q9AbbbPzvs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.75 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103854 Archived-At: >> That may be a good change, but I suspect it leads to changes in Lisp >> primitives that ought to be documented in NEWS and in the Lisp Manual. > > While nowhere does it say that the buffer is preserved, I couldn't find > any place where set-window-buffer is said to sometimes change > current-buffer (not even a vague hint). I think this is a pure bug fix. IMHO we should mention it in NEWS. I suppose a couple of applications not distributed with Emacs might rely on the faulty behavior. martin