Re: save-current-buffer

[Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>]

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:

> I see. I assume after the form is evaluated, some event will set the
> current-buffer to the one switch-to-buffer switched to.

I assume it's the other way round:  When calling a command the current
buffer is set according to the selected window.  But the results are the
same.

> (require 'recentf)
> (run-with-timer 0 nil 'recentf-open-files)
>
> Now pressing 'q' gives a read-only error, though it is
> bound to recentf-cancel-dialog. Pressing it twice works fine.

I'll wager that this is an Emacs bug.

From the Emacs TODO file:

** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.


I hope that I just saved you some headaches... Good thing you were
talking to me.  I reported this bug. :)

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher