Re: Window configurations

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

> Anyway, what I need to know is how to deal with all the `other-buffer'
> calls in general.  For example, how do we determine the prompt for
> `read-buffer-to-switch'?  This is called by `switch-to-buffer' but
> also by `switch-to-buffer-other-window' and `switch-to-buffer-other-frame'
> where we don't know the target window in advance.  And we certainly
> don't want to prompt with a visible buffer there.

If we don't know the target window in advance, then we can't use
the window-local buffer-list for `read-buffer-to-switch'.

> In my `quit-restore-window' parameter I currently store whether to the
> kill the window and which window to select instead.  These are not very
> compatible with buffer lists but I do need them in order to keep up the
> current behavior of quitting a help buffer or view mode.  Mixing these
> into window local buffer list is not very nice.

This means that you need to store more information for the first
element of the window-local buffer-list, i.e. when popping the
stack of buffers reaches the first element, it should know what to do
after popping the last element: whether to kill the window and
which window to select instead.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/