From: Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Return values of (find-file-noselect), etc.
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 19:49:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <375db42e-f62d-c3c7-518a-627190b30617@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmuodo2t3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On 01/06/2019 05:13 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> If I have my emacs environment set up to call (cpio-mode) when it
>> detects that a file is a cpio archive, then, e.g. (find-file-noselect
>> "cpio-archive"), returns the dired-style buffer, not the buffer of the
>> found file. So, any processing based on the newly found file is done
>> with the dired-style buffer instead of the buffer with the newly found file.
> It should return the buffer whose buffer-file-name is that of the file.
> I think in your case, that should be the dired-style buffer and *also*
> the buffer from which cpio-mode was called (i.e. the buffer which
> originally held the file's content).
> In RMAIL we satisfy these constraints using buffer-swap-text.
Either way, that's not what I'm seeing. Should this be recorded as a bug?
--
,Doug
Douglas Lewan
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-06 19:06 Return values of (find-file-noselect), etc Douglas Lewan
2019-01-06 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-07 0:49 ` Douglas Lewan [this message]
2019-01-07 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-07 7:36 ` Douglas Lewan
2019-01-08 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-08 19:12 ` Douglas Lewan
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