From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fix for bug#29935 copyright-update inserts year at random places
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:18:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwp0sato2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A53B5E1.5080608@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:18:09 +0100")
> `quit-restore-window' remembers what buffer the window it quits
> displayed before calling `with-temp-buffer-window' and also the
> respective `window-start' and `window-point' positions, sometimes also
> the window's size.
So it also remembers if the previous buffer was the same buffer?
Sounds like it would do the job, then.
Except that with-temp-buffer-window starts by erasing the buffer,
whereas here the buffer is already ready to be displayed (it's a file
buffer).
>>> So please tell what's missing in `with-temp-buffer-window'.
>> It forces scoping.
> Where and how?
I guess I was confused by the `with` in the name.
> IIUC your
>
> (let ((x (temporary-display-buffer BUF)))
>
> +
>
> (temporary-undisplay-buffer x)
>
> would force scoping
No: the `x` could be stored anywhere you like.
> but `quit-restore-window' doesn't rely on any scoping.
Good. So we just need to extract the "display-buffer" part of
with-temp-buffer-window?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-01 23:29 fix for bug#29935 copyright-update inserts year at random places Stephen Leake
2018-01-02 9:21 ` Lele Gaifax
2018-01-02 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-03 22:52 ` Stephen Leake
2018-01-04 1:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-04 3:21 ` Stephen Leake
2018-01-04 5:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-04 12:47 ` Stephen Leake
2018-01-04 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-07 16:08 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-07 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-08 9:53 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-08 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-08 16:56 ` Stephen Leake
2018-01-08 18:37 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-08 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 16:48 ` Stephen Leake
2018-01-08 18:18 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-08 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-01-09 9:42 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-09 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-10 10:19 ` martin rudalics
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