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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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06  5:55 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-13 22:13 grischka

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