From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Systematizing back navigation
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:35:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5r7ipg1.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70ABA96C-74EE-40B2-BB0F-A0FDAA412BE7@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:35:24 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I think you are over-engineering this. That a key has different
> bindings in different major modes is nothing new in Emacs. Moreover,
> smartphone apps are also inconsistent in what the Back button does in
> each situation.
>
> So I don't see why we need to worry about this, let alone pretend
> there's some deep internal issue here. Perhaps you bumped into some
> specific situation, and then tried to generalize it too much. In that
> case, I suggest to describe the original issue, not its
> generalizations.
I did describe three specific scenarios that I come across frequently:
Info, Help and Gnus Article buffers. Besides those, there are also
pop-ups displayed by the likes of VC,
dired-mouse-find-file-other-window, and virtually every other caller of
display-buffer. With these, I'd rather Back dismissed the new window
altogether than switch to whatever window previous-buffer selects.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-21 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2023-11-21 3:45 ` Systematizing back navigation Po Lu
2023-11-21 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-21 6:35 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-11-21 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-21 11:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-21 6:39 ` Adam Porter
2023-11-21 11:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-21 13:15 ` sbaugh
2023-11-21 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
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