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: window-next-buffers Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:24:05 +0800 Message-ID: <87obw16fgq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878vn67y0l.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322126672 8179 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2011 09:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Martin Rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 10:24:27 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 1RTVXf-0005yg-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:24:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTVXf-0005f9-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:24:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTVXY-0005f4-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTVXS-00005E-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTVXS-00005A-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:24:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.16.137] (port=58488 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTVXR-0006WA-Ai; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:24:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878vn67y0l.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:58:02 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:146194 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > IIUC, the functions window-next-buffers and set-window-next-buffers (and > the corresponding next_buffers slot) exist for navigating "forward" in > the window history list, via switch-to-next-buffer, after doing > switch-to-prev-buffer. > > Maintaining separate prev-history and next-history lists is not very > Emacs-y. Why isn't this a ring? On second thought, never mind. We don't generally use rings for history. I do find the window-next-buffers stuff a bit weird, somehow, but it's not important.