From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#5185: 23.1; Elusive *cvs* buffer.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:12:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874onxw6z2.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
This bug is not in fact 23.1-specific. It is there, say, in 22.2.1 as
well.
The cvs-update command from PCL-CVS somehow manages to create and show
*cvs* buffer that is not recorded in the buffer-list frame
parameter. I.e., the buffer *cvs*, when first created and made current
by cvs-update, becomes current in the only visible window in the only
frame, yet it is not there in the frame parameter 'buffer-list. This
does not happen when there are multiple windows visible in the frame. As
cvs-update doesn't seem to touch 'buffer-list directly, there should be
a bug in core emacs functions somewhere, I believe.
To reproduce the bug one can invoke `cvs-update' over some
CVS-controlled directory when single window is visible, then open
another frame, switch to *scratch* there, and evaluate
(frame-parameter (next-frame) 'buffer-list)
The result won't contain *cvs* buffer visible in the original frame.
Switching back to original frame and then once again to the new frame
will put *cvs* buffer into the list (evaluate the above once again to
see it). You can see this in the automatically recorded "Recent
messages:" at the end of this bug-report:
(#<buffer frame-parameter.el> #<buffer *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *scratch*>)
(#<buffer *cvs*> #<buffer frame-parameter.el> #<buffer *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *scratch*>)
are these two consecutive results of evaluation with switching back and
force between those two frames in-between.
Even switching to mini-buffer will record *cvs* buffer into 'buffer-list
parameter, so one can't even use "M-x eval-expression" to see the
problem.
This bug, for example, breaks the following function that is intended
to always switch between two recent buffers:
(defun switch-to-previous-buffer ()
"Switch to the previous buffer."
(interactive)
(switch-to-buffer (other-buffer (current-buffer))))
When this function is assigned to a key, e.g.:
(global-set-key [(control meta ?l)] 'switch-to-previous-buffer)
then pressing this key twice will restore the original buffer, except
in case of such elusive *cvs* buffer, as first invocation of this
function makes *cvs* the last buffer in the list of buffers, and the
next invocation doesn't select it back.
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
of 2009-10-19 on debian-build.int-office-er.priv, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
configured using `configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: CVS
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <file> <make-frame> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <make-frame>
<switch-frame> <help-echo> <backspace> <f2> <switch-frame>
M-x M-x c v s C-g C-x s y C-x C-e <switch-frame> C-x
C-e C-x C-b <C-tab> C-x o C-n C-n C-p d C-n d x C-x
k <return> <C-tab> C-x o C-x 1 C-x C-e <switch-frame>
M-x <up> c v s - u p d a t e <return> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> . . / l d r p p c <return>
<switch-frame> C-x C-e <switch-frame> <switch-frame>
C-x C-e C-x b m e <backspace> <backspace> M <backspace>
* M e s <tab> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> C-SPC <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
C-g <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <up> <switch-frame> M-x e m a c s - b <backspace>
r e p o <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
b u <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e
p o <tab> r t - e m <tab> <return>
Recent messages:
(#<buffer frame-parameter.el> #<buffer *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *scratch*>)
goto-history-element: Beginning of history; no preceding item
(No files need saving)
Running cvs update ...
CVS process has completed in *cvs*
(#<buffer frame-parameter.el> #<buffer *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *scratch*>)
(#<buffer *cvs*> #<buffer frame-parameter.el> #<buffer *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *scratch*>)
Mark set
Quit
Making completion list...
next reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 21:12 Sergei Organov [this message]
2019-10-06 5:14 ` bug#5185: 23.1; Elusive *cvs* buffer Stefan Kangas
2019-10-07 4:30 ` Sergey Organov
2019-10-07 8:37 ` Stefan Kangas
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