From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:10:59 -0400 Message-ID: <87hb6zt8rg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <0aiprg76eu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309987145 516 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2011 21:19:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 23:18:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeZUp-0000qK-4c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeZUo-0007En-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeZNF-0005Df-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeZNA-0003Eg-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:46507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeZN8-0003EJ-Vk; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014081.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p66LB0oK004746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:11:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:18:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141687 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Was it really necessary to mark switch-to-buffer "for interactive use >> only"? It's a pretty basic command that was used in ~ 800 places in the >> Emacs 23.3 sources. > > Most of those calls were bugs waiting to catch you in Emacs<23 ("you" > being typically a user like myself who uses dedicated windows and/or > minibuffer-only frames). How would you change this? (defun unbury-buffer () "Switch to the last buffer in the buffer list." (interactive) (switch-to-buffer (last-buffer)))