From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:55:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E13F8DB.1090304@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9x62ngw53l.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Am 06.07.2011 03:49, schrieb Glenn Morris:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> Most of those calls were bugs waiting to catch you in Emacs<23 ("you"
>> being typically a user like myself who uses dedicated windows and/or
>> minibuffer-only frames).
> [...]
>>> Isn't there a better way to handle this than replacing hundreds of
>>> calls with `pop-to-buffer-same-window'?
>>
>> Not sure what that way would be.
>
> Fix switch-to-buffer?
>
> Eg make it call pop-to-buffer-same-window in the non-interactive-case?
> Then make a new function
> switch-to-buffer-sometimes-fails-and-you-probably-dont-want-this
> that does what the old version used to?
>
> Since you say above that "most" calls to switch-to-buffer were wrong,
> why not fix the majority by fixing switch-to-buffer, and let the
> minority of cases which need to do something different do so, if and
> when it turns out to matter?
>
>
Hi,
AFAIU switch-to-buffer is simply not TRT when called from a program.
AFAICT it has the nasty side-effect slowing down execution, introducing
that kind of bug at least.
So far marking "for interacive use only" looks correct for me.
Cheers,
Andreas
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 21:40 switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:32 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 1:49 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 2:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 5:55 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-07-06 21:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 9:19 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-07-07 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 23:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 1:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 14:03 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 16:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 20:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-09 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 9:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-09 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 13:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 13:31 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 14:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 4:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-12 8:36 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 15:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-13 17:18 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 21:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
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2011-07-13 22:13 grischka
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