From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why should it be so hard to tell find-dired to use a different window? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:52:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537541490 21612 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2018 14:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:51:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 21 16:51:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g3MmD-0005Xq-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:51:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3MoK-0005oA-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3MnH-0005nu-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3MnE-0003h3-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49157 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3MnE-0003XX-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g3Mku-0003zz-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:50:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VuLEav/YPqYRCI6G+1B3xaWJQbk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229988 Archived-At: > I’m surprised that it works this way? Does this bother anybody else? I've been in this fight for a long time, but since I don't use find-fired, I haven't bumped into this problem. > Like, I could imagine an alternate world where that call to > `switch-to-buffer' could be replaced with something as heavy-handed as … > > (pop-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*") '(display-buffer-same-window > (inhibit-same-window))) There's pop-to-buffer-same-window. > Is there any particular reason to keep using switch-to-buffer here? AFAIK the only reason is history, Stefan