From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 33258@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33258: inhibit-select-window
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:34:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5BE00E99.1020003@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muqpj8ib.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> Many commands use pop-to-buffer to display a buffer and
> select its window by default.
>
> Sometimes it's not desirable to select the displayed window.
>
> One of the many examples is 'C-x v =' (vc-diff) where
> the need is only to look at the diffs, but not to operate
> on the *vc-diff* buffer in its window.
Is this particular behavior caused by the
;; Display the buffer, but at the end because it can change point.
(pop-to-buffer (current-buffer))
in 'vc-diff-internal'?
> Currently there is no configurable way for the user
> to override the default window selection.
>
> I propose a new alist entry to support such feature.
> An example of usage in user's customization:
>
> (push '("\\*vc-diff\\*" nil
> (inhibit-select-window . t))
> display-buffer-alist)
>
> then pop-to-buffer could check for the alist entry
> 'inhibit-select-window' and to not select the window
> if it's non-nil.
I understand what you want but I doubt we can put that into practice.
While not selecting the window might not be a great issue, not making
its buffer current is. We would have to check each and every call of
'pop-to-buffer' as to whether subsequent code relies on the fact that
it made the buffer current. This is not fathomable IMO.
One could argue that 'display-buffer' may fail to produce a window and
so the buffer would not be made current in that case either but as we
know it is really hard to make 'display-buffer' fail.
> OTOH, when a command uses display-buffer that doesn't select a window,
> then the same alist entry with a different value or a new entry e.g.
> '(select-window . t)' could be used to force selecting the window.
> This could be implemented by using the same code from pop-to-buffer
> and adding it to display-buffer functions.
This would be possible. Such an entry would have to be called
something like 'force-select-window' and could be applied by both
users and programs for one soberingly simple reason: A Lisp program
can never rely upon 'display-buffer' to _not_ select the chosen window
- popping up a new frame may implicitly select the window at any time.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 21:17 bug#33258: inhibit-select-window Juri Linkov
2018-11-05 9:34 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2018-11-05 21:30 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-06 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-06 21:59 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-07 9:22 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-07 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-08 8:52 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-08 21:56 ` Juri Linkov
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