From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: 5405@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5405: select-frame losing current-buffer
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:02:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my0c7b4k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud418h9k5.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:26:34 +0000")
Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
> The documentation of make-frame says that current-buffer continues to
> selected in the new frame. The documentation of select-frame doesn't
> say anything about the matter, but one would normally expect that the
> current-buffer should still remain the same. However, the following
> example shows that select-frame loses the current-buffer:
>
> (defun testing ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((new-buffer (get-buffer-create " testing")))
> (set-buffer new-buffer)
> (select-frame (make-frame nil))
> (if (not (equal (current-buffer) new-buffer))
> (debug))))
>
> I presume that the space at the beginning of the buffer name is
> a partial cause of this misbehaviour.
This is deliberate behavior dating back about a decade (frame.c:392).
Buffers whose names start with a space are considered "hidden buffers"
that should not ordinarily be displayed (e.g. they don't show up in
M-x list-buffers either). I'll update the documentation to mention
this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 18:26 bug#5405: select-frame losing current-buffer Uday S Reddy
2010-01-17 20:02 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-01-17 20:21 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-01-17 21:26 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-18 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2010-01-18 15:32 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-09-18 11:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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