From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting mode to a temporary buffer Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:35:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40284"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:YAosYY4R9AEg6PBDTnytbqHjbhk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 25 15:37:27 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRD30-000AF1-5Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:37:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRD2z-0002zn-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRD1U-0002u8-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRD1S-0003nv-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRD1R-0007fl-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:35:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139088 Archived-At: > (with-current-buffer bfname (org-mode)) > (pop-to-buffer bfname))) `pop-to-buffer` and its friends obey `display-buffer-alist` which can specify different behaviors depending on the buffer's state such as its contents and its major mode. So it's much better to set the major mode before calling `pop-to-buffer` (like you've done above) than the reverse. Stefan