Re: 23.0.60; switch-to-buffer-other-window fails to work

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> `switch-to-buffer-other-window' no longer uses the "other" window.
>>
>> Using a new emacs via "emacs -Q":
>> `C-h i' - Displays the *info* buffer
>> `C-x 4 b RET' - Displays the *scratch* buffer in a second window
>> `C-x 4 b RET' - Fails to replace the *info* buffer with the *Messages*
>>                 buffer.  Replaces the *scratch* buffer instead.
>
> Thank you very much for the report.  Can you please try whether the
> attached patch fixes it?  It incorporates a number of changes unrelated
> to the bug you found.  The change needed to fix the bug you found is the
> last one in the patch on lines 1011-1018.

I had updated from CVS, and as such the patch did not apply properly.
However, it does appear as if those patches (or similar ones) made it
into window.el 1.140, and they do seem to fix the problem.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)