From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; switch-to-buffer-other-window fails to work Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:02 -0400 Message-ID: <877iczj28p.fsf@maru.md5i.com> References: <87mylwjxmh.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <484B98BD.7030705@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212944127 23204 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 16:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 18:56:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5OBa-0001Wz-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:56:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5OAn-0000XT-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5OAi-0000WS-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5OAh-0000Vk-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59410 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5OAh-0000Vf-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50909) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5OAg-0008OY-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:37423) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K5O8m-00018c-Ie for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5OAb-0008NW-7g for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([66.207.132.105]:42449 helo=maru.md5i.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5OAa-0008Mr-O5 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i by maru.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K5OAY-0007Ek-NJ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:55:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <484B98BD.7030705@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:30:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98696 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22595 Archived-At: martin rudalics 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)