From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:50:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcvcmr8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SRuKuo--yzpqV+TUqr_qsjeiSuuFuTLVnwQxr8_bpTeww@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:34:04 +0200")
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> That would resurrect the bug recently fixed in bs-cycle-next where it
> opened another window when the selected one was strongly dedicated. It
> is called "cycle", not "bring-me": either it can cycle a new buffer
> into the window, or it should say that it cannot. That's what it does
> now, and that's the right thing to do.
>
> For some operations on a buffer with a strongly dedicated window, it
> makes sense to pop up another window; for some others, it does not.
> Conflating both is never going to be a good answer. Well, strictly
> speaking, we can do that and use `display-buffer-alist' to allow the
> user to override it; but bs-cycle-next, and operations of that kind,
> should do the right thing out of the box.
It seems to me that such cases are very much in the minority---AFAICT,
the vast majority of uses of switch-to-buffer in the Emacs sources
simply have the intention "show BUFFER, but try not to make a new window
to do it".
So, if creating a new window is the wrong thing for bs-cycle-next, it
should be bs-cycle-next that changes---e.g. by changing from
switch-to-buffer to set-window-buffer---not everything else in Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 21:40 switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:32 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 23:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 23:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 1:49 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 2:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 5:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-06 21:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 9:19 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-07-07 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-07 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 23:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 1:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:44 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 6:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 14:03 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 16:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 20:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-08 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 20:50 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-07-08 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-09 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 9:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-09 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 13:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-10 13:31 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-11 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-11 14:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 4:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-12 8:36 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 15:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-13 17:18 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 21:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-09 8:45 ` martin rudalics
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-13 22:13 grischka
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