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bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not t
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martin rudalics |
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bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW |
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:16:39 +0200 |
> > Hence it's more suitable for buffers popping up in special occasions
> > (like, for example, when a bug occurred and the debugger should be
> > entered) and less suitable for buffer editing.
>
> I have also noticed it's not always good for special buffers either, e.g. if
I run xref-find-definitions, press q, and run it again, different windows will be
used for the two times.
When a different window gets used there's usually a reason. So I'd
need a recipe to tell you more about this ...
> So about that main use case (the Debugger), can it just exclude the selected
window using inhibit-same-window? That would obviate the need for special logic in
this case.
An 'inhibit-same-window' entry is the canonical way to "exclude" the
selected window. A 'previous-window' entry is just a hint to "prefer"
some other window.
martin
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/06/10
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, martin rudalics, 2019/06/11
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/06/11
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, martin rudalics, 2019/06/12
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/06/12
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, martin rudalics, 2019/06/13
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/06/15
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW,
martin rudalics <=
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/06/18
- bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW, martin rudalics, 2019/06/19