all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, 36161@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 03:47:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bf87542-fc41-98ab-c4b4-3dd0074573c1@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e909627d-1c11-0ad4-c3b9-dc5918ea4182@gmx.at>

On 13.06.2019 11:43, martin rudalics wrote:

 > Hence it's more suitable for buffers popping up in special occasions
 > (like, for example, when a bug occurred and the debugger should be
 > entered) and less suitable for buffer editing.

I have also noticed it's not always good for special buffers either, 
e.g. if I run xref-find-definitions, press q, and run it again, 
different windows will be used for the two times.

> A 'previous-window' ALIST entry should continue to support the
> principle of least surprise by allowing to choose a non-selected
> window that never showed the buffer before.  The selected window,
> however, should be always either chosen or excluded from choice by
> special means - either via 'display-buffer-same-window' or using an
> 'inhibit-same-window' entry.

So about that main use case (the Debugger), can it just exclude the 
selected window using inhibit-same-window? That would obviate the need 
for special logic in this case.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-16  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 20:29 bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-11  8:16 ` martin rudalics
2019-06-11 13:01   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-12  9:18     ` martin rudalics
2019-06-12 13:31       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-13  8:43         ` martin rudalics
2019-06-16  0:47           ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2019-06-16  8:16             ` martin rudalics
2019-06-19  1:37               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-19  9:15                 ` martin rudalics

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1bf87542-fc41-98ab-c4b4-3dd0074573c1@yandex.ru \
    --to=dgutov@yandex.ru \
    --cc=36161@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=rudalics@gmx.at \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.