From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to know the buffer I will return to from the minibuffer?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:00:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736onq7iy.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214083924.GC26522@tuxteam.de>
On 2019-02-14, at 09:39, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 08:10:54AM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am writing an interactive command to be used while in the minibuffer.
>> I need to know the buffer I was in when I issued the command that put me
>> in the minibuffer (like M-: or M-!). I tried (other-buffer
>> (current-buffer)) and (last-buffer (current-buffer)), but to no avail.
>> Then I re-read the docs for `other-buffer' and used this: (other-buffer
>> (current-buffer) t), and it seemed to work. The question is, how
>> reliable it is. Am I doing this correctly?
>
> There's also minibuffer-selected-window (Emacs 27.0.50 here):
>
> minibuffer-selected-window is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
>
> (minibuffer-selected-window)
>
> Return window selected just before minibuffer window was selected.
> Return nil if the selected window is not a minibuffer window.
> This function does not change global state, including the match data.
>
> HTH
> -- tomás
Yes, that seems to help a lot - thanks!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-17 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 7:10 How to know the buffer I will return to from the minibuffer? Marcin Borkowski
2019-02-14 8:39 ` tomas
2019-02-17 6:00 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-02-14 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-17 5:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
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