* letting *Man xxx* buffers appear when burying other buffers [not found] <20020723185950.7493.9547.Mailman@fencepost.gnu.org> @ 2002-07-23 19:40 ` Daniel Barclay 2002-10-09 23:46 ` Daniel Barclay 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Daniel Barclay @ 2002-07-23 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw) In GNU Emacs 20.7.2, the bury-buffer command treats manual-page buffers (e.g., *Man xxx*) inconsistently. Specifically, if you create a manual-page buffer, switch to some other buffer in that window, and then do: M-x bury-buffer RET you don't get back to the first buffer. (In other cases, you would get back to where you were first.) How can I eliminate the special-case behavior? (Is there any configuration variable to set? How can I find the elisp code for a command?) (Is there any chance that anyone else would agree that this "feature" is a bug? (Or its being turned on by default. Or its being undocumented (in info and in describe-function). I can imagine that someone got tired of seeing related manual page buffers after deleting (or burying) source code buffers and added a special-case fix. However, behaving specially makes several things inconsistent. Usually, you can create or raise a number of buffers in sequence, and then use bury-buffer to return to each previous buffer. That was a very useful feature. There shouldn't be any reason you can't use that feature with manual page buffers. Behaving specially for manual pages is also inconsistent with delete-buffer: It used to be that both delete-buffer and bury-buffer left the previous buffer displayed. Now they diverge. If this feature is left in, could it at least by controlled by some configuration variable (a list of buffer types?)? (If it isn't already.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* letting *Man xxx* buffers appear when burying other buffers [not found] <20020723185950.7493.9547.Mailman@fencepost.gnu.org> 2002-07-23 19:40 ` letting *Man xxx* buffers appear when burying other buffers Daniel Barclay @ 2002-10-09 23:46 ` Daniel Barclay 2002-10-10 2:10 ` David Forrest 1 sibling, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Daniel Barclay @ 2002-10-09 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw) In GNU Emacs 20.7.2, the bury-buffer command treats manual-page buffers (e.g., *Man xxx*) inconsistently. Specifically, if you create a manual-page buffer, switch to some other buffer in that window, and then do: M-x bury-buffer RET you don't get back to the first buffer. (In other cases, you would get back to where you were first.) How can I eliminate the special-case behavior? (Is there any configuration variable to set? How can I find the elisp code for a command?) (Is there any chance that anyone else would agree that this "feature" is a bug? (Or its being turned on by default. Or its being undocumented (in info and in describe-function). I can imagine that someone got tired of seeing related manual page buffers after deleting (or burying) source code buffers and added a special-case fix. However, behaving specially makes several things inconsistent. Usually, you can create or raise a number of buffers in sequence, and then use bury-buffer to return to each previous buffer. That was a very useful feature. There shouldn't be any reason you can't use that feature with manual page buffers. Behaving specially for manual pages is also inconsistent with delete-buffer: It used to be that both delete-buffer and bury-buffer left the previous buffer displayed. Now they diverge. If this feature is left in, could it at least by controlled by some configuration variable (a list of buffer types?)? (If it isn't already.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: letting *Man xxx* buffers appear when burying other buffers 2002-10-09 23:46 ` Daniel Barclay @ 2002-10-10 2:10 ` David Forrest 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: David Forrest @ 2002-10-10 2:10 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: help-gnu-emacs On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > In GNU Emacs 20.7.2, the bury-buffer command treats manual-page > buffers (e.g., *Man xxx*) inconsistently. My solution isn't quite on topic, but I use (defun raise-buffer () "Raise the most-buried (per bury-buffer) buffer" (interactive) (switch-to-buffer (car(last(buffer-list))))) As the inverse of bury-buffer to get around things like this. I think what you are seeing is that the *man XXX* buffer is of a different class than normal files, and looks like *scratch* *completions* ... and are at the bottom of the list. > > Specifically, if you create a manual-page buffer, switch to some > other buffer in that window, and then do: > > M-x bury-buffer RET > > you don't get back to the first buffer. (In other cases, you > would get back to where you were first.) > > > How can I eliminate the special-case behavior? (Is there any > configuration variable to set? How can I find the elisp code > for a command?) > > > (Is there any chance that anyone else would agree that this > "feature" is a bug? (Or its being turned on by default. Or > its being undocumented (in info and in describe-function). > > > > I can imagine that someone got tired of seeing related manual > page buffers after deleting (or burying) source code buffers > and added a special-case fix. > > However, behaving specially makes several things inconsistent. > > Usually, you can create or raise a number of buffers in > sequence, and then use bury-buffer to return to each previous > buffer. That was a very useful feature. There shouldn't be > any reason you can't use that feature with manual page buffers. > > Behaving specially for manual pages is also inconsistent with > delete-buffer: It used to be that both delete-buffer and > bury-buffer left the previous buffer displayed. Now they > diverge. > > If this feature is left in, could it at least by controlled > by some configuration variable (a list of buffer types?)? > (If it isn't already.) > > > > > Thanks, > Daniel > -- Dave Forrest (434)924-3954w(111B) (804)642-0662h (804)695-2026p drf5n@virginia.edu http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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