Re: Return values of (find-file-noselect), etc.

[Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>]

Ok. I'll look into it. Don't expect this immediately though. (One
problem I see right away is that associating an entry contents buffer
correctly might require a different mechanism.


On 01/08/2019 01:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Either way, that's not what I'm seeing. Should this be recorded as a bug?
>>> I think it's a bug for a major mode function to change the current
>>> buffer, so what you're seeing is likely the result of find-file-noselect
>>> not protecting itself against such misbehaving major modes ;-)
>> Hmmm. I suppose I could make (cpio-mode) a function instead of a mode,
> I think using buffer-swap-text, you should be able to fairly easily make
> it so that cpio-mode is a proper major mode (e.g. doesn't change
> current-buffer) and yet moves the current buffer's contents to some
> auxiliary buffer and puts the dired-style interface in the current buffer.
> (and setup a change-major-mode-hook to reverse this if the user decides
> to change the major mode to something else like fundamental-mode).
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

-- 
,Doug
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