From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help cross reference to source file
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:29:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3bd83gvs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMOEIPCJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:48:55 -0700")
>> Even if help can't take me to the right place in the source file,
>> I think it should open the file - and provide the error message,
>> inviting me to search for it in the file.
>> Does this give behavior you like?
>> + (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
> This burps if the selected window is a minibuffer or dedicated window.
> I think we should mark switch-to-buffer as "not for use from
> elisp" (like insert-buffer and others).
> I sympathize with (and share) the problem, but I disagree that
> switch-to-buffer shouldn't be used from Lisp (unless a similar functionality
> is made available in another function).
> The real problem is general: make Emacs play well with dedicated windows and
> with non-nil pop-up-frames.
> In this case, the code probably needs to explicitly deal with the problem
> you raise, working around it. In the future, perhaps such code to side-step
> this kind of problem could be made generally available, as part of a
> different function that does
> `careful-switch-to-buffer-taking-into-account-corner-cases'.
In this case, the normal control flow displays the buffer somehow so I think
that the right fix is to try to preserve this normal control flow (probably
catching the error and re-raising it later when the buffer has been
displayed).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-09 1:35 Help cross reference to source file Drew Adams
2006-07-09 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-09 19:55 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-10 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-10 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-11 4:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-07-11 18:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-12 15:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 12:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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