From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:39:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uy1u0c3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmxgp3iqb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:11:56 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> There are two different uses of switch-to-buffer:
> - the ones like in unbury-buffer where the main point is that it
> operates on the selected window.
> - the ones like in find-file where the main point is that it wants to
> display a given buffer.
>
> In single-frame circumstances, the two cases are identical, so most
> authors who use Emacs in a single-frame mode don't even realize that
> there's a choice to be made.
>
> Until Emacs-23, switch-to-buffer assumed the main point was to only
> affect the selected-window (and hence signal an error if the switch is
> not possible).
>
> In Emacs-23, I've changed it to assume that the main point is to
> display the given buffer (by delegating the job to pop-to-buffer if
> necessary).
>
> Recently, I reverted my Emacs-23 change because it introduced bugs
> (e.g. in unbury-buffer and bs--cycle-next).
How bout if switch-to-buffer tries to operate on the selected window,
and calls pop-to-buffer if that is not possible?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 23:39 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
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 [this message]
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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