From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: 33258@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33258: inhibit-select-window
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:17:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muqpj8ib.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
Many commands use pop-to-buffer to display a buffer and
select its window by default.
Sometimes it's not desirable to select the displayed window.
One of the many examples is 'C-x v =' (vc-diff) where
the need is only to look at the diffs, but not to operate
on the *vc-diff* buffer in its window.
Currently there is no configurable way for the user
to override the default window selection.
I propose a new alist entry to support such feature.
An example of usage in user's customization:
(push '("\\*vc-diff\\*" nil
(inhibit-select-window . t))
display-buffer-alist)
then pop-to-buffer could check for the alist entry
'inhibit-select-window' and to not select the window
if it's non-nil.
OTOH, when a command uses display-buffer that doesn't select a window,
then the same alist entry with a different value or a new entry e.g.
'(select-window . t)' could be used to force selecting the window.
This could be implemented by using the same code from pop-to-buffer
and adding it to display-buffer functions.
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-04 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 21:17 Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-11-05 9:34 ` bug#33258: inhibit-select-window martin rudalics
2018-11-05 21:30 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-06 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-06 21:59 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-07 9:22 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-07 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2018-11-08 8:52 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-08 21:56 ` Juri Linkov
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