From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:06 -0400 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> <87zkkokwp7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871uxzxnme.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310355930 5424 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2011 03:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, martin rudalics To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 05:45:26 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 1Qg7Qz-0006Rx-HQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg7Qy-0005W8-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41551) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg7Qi-0005US-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg7Qh-00035u-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg7Qh-00035p-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from cpe-66-108-39-217.nyc.res.rr.com ([66.108.39.217]:49467 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qg7Qh-00052A-Ah; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2986F660D5; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:45:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <871uxzxnme.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:25:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:141929 Archived-At: > ! If the selected window is weakly dedicated, switch to > ! BUFFER-OR-NAME anyway (see `set-window-dedicated-p'). If the > ! selected window is strongly dedicated, display BUFFER-OR-NAME in > ! another window if FORCE-SAME-WINDOW is nil, and signal an error > ! if FORCE-SAME-WINDOW if non-nil. I don't think it's necessary to talk so much about dedicated windows. And FORCE-SAME-WINDOW should simply means that it will signal an error if it can't use the selected window. > ! Return the buffer switched to." > (interactive > (list (read-buffer-to-switch "Switch to buffer: "))) > (let ((buffer (window-normalize-buffer-to-switch-to buffer-or-name))) > ! (when force-same-window > ! (cond > ! ((window-minibuffer-p) > ! (error "Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window")) > ! ((eq (window-dedicated-p) t) > ! (error "Cannot switch buffers in a dedicated window")))) > ! (pop-to-buffer buffer-or-name > ! '(same-window (reuse-window-dedicated . weak)) > ! norecord nil))) AFAIU, this can still use another window when force-same-window is non-nil. Stefan