Re: switch-to-buffer-other-frame fails to pop-up window

["Mark T. Kennedy" <mkennedy@diamondbackcap.com>]

two observations:

1) contrast the behavior of 'c-x 5 b' with 'c-x 4 b'.  'c-x 4 b' always forces the creation of two
different windows, even when displaying the same buffer.  'c-x 5 b' does not always force the
creation of two frames.

2) one might guess that 'switch-to-buffer-other-frame' is essentially a wrapper that
sets 'pop-up-frames' to 't' and then calls display-buffer (and it is).
while the behavior of display-buffer is meticulously documented, the observed
behavior clashes with the documentation for 'pop-up-frames'.  now if it were
called "maybe-pop-up-frames" or "frequently-pop-up-frames", i wouldn't feel
so bad, but... :-).

so i'm requesting (not demanding :-) a change in behavior.

what use case would clash with a change like this?

/mark

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > 1) start emacs with "-Q"
>  > 2) type "c-x b foo", then "c-x 2", and then "c-x b".
>  >    now "*scratch* and "foo" are displayed in two windows
>  >    on the original single frame.
> 
> At this moment the window displaying "foo" is _not_ selected.
> 
>  > 3) now type "c-x 5 b foo" and see that a new frame is not
>  >    popped up.
> 
> But the window displaying "foo" should be selected now.  This is the
> expected behavior of `display-buffer' which is mentioned in the
> doc-string of `switch-to-buffer-other-frame'.
> 
> Maybe `switch-to-buffer-other-frame' should _always_ display the buffer
> in another frame - that is call `display-buffer-other-frame' and select
> that frame (C-x 5 C-o doesn't _select_ the other frame).
> 
>  > contrast this with "emacs -Q" and "c-x 4 b foo" followed by
>  > "c-x 5 b foo".
> 
> Because at the time you invoke C-x 5 b foo here a window showing "foo"
> is selected.  Again this is the documented behavior of `display-buffer'.
> 
> Just some explanations - feel free to demand a more intuitive behavior
> and/or description.  To me it's not entirely clear how to reconcile all
> possible use cases.
> 
> 

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