From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 01:16:42 +0200 Message-ID: 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; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310167076 17072 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 23:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 01:17:48 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 1QfKIu-0004Ew-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfKIs-0005DT-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfKIY-0005Cs-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfKIW-0008G9-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:64685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfKIV-0008G1-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: by pvc12 with SMTP id 12so1773597pvc.0 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:17:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0YFeNAuld56gY05mrJBGNR4XO2jD/zQb6RJJ9dODPjg=; b=Ck/ggl/gcRwNU7B2+7nI/so59RbYduiYPZlpBwPEIdoL/v1nIRD0F/vs122sfkylHf MGuAq5pT6sLq4lFculQ2fwEnE+ZLTBPfQUTvqu+QQrWfaZ7K4+RoLITn5ot1wjae5lDg rHls2cTjAj0BYyGcEEYfFjngP0fRl/4AvwwaI= Original-Received: by 10.143.97.26 with SMTP id z26mr538564wfl.81.1310167042095; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.144.4 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:16:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vcvcmr8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.83.169 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:141827 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 22:50, Chong Yidong wrote: > 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. 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. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma