From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:35:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkkokwp7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <0aiprg76eu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87hb6zt8rg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739ihlsry.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E16A728.5040002@gmx.at> <4E170E48.5040408@gmx.at> <4E173412.3090804@gmx.at> <87d3hkmt0k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vcvcmr8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310178966 3731 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2011 02:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 02:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 04:36:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfNOg-0003VD-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:35:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfNOf-00046Y-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfNOO-00045y-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfNOM-0000Ej-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:55574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfNOM-0000E7-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225171.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.171]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p692ZWWF006694 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:35:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2011 01:16:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141832 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: >> 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. > > I don't remember saying that it is the rest of Emacs which must be > changed; only that there are two different use cases, and we must > cater to both. Fair enough. So, I propose the following: - Make switch-to-buffer basically do (pop-to-buffer buffer-or-name 'same-window norecord label) - Make pop-to-buffer-same-window an alias for switch-to-buffer. (This means to add an optional LABEL arg to switch-to-buffer, for consistency with pop-to-buffer-same-window.) - Remove the "interactive use only" flag from switch-to-buffer. - For those places that intend the "act on the selected window" behavior---which is the minority---change the code to call (set-window-buffer (selected-window) buffer), instead of switch-to-buffer. How's that?