Re: CVS Emacs switch-to-buffer issue.

[Rob Kramer]

Reply to self..

> The elisp solution is a hack. Is there an official way to do this? Should
> the test in buffer.c above do a buffer_record() before returning?

The patch below makes switch-to-buffer record_buffer again if switching to
current-buffer. Don't know if it makes any sense to do things this way, but
it solves my problem...

Cheers,

    Rob


RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/buffer.c,v
retrieving revision 1.465
diff -u -3 -p -r1.465 buffer.c
--- src/buffer.c        26 Oct 2004 09:45:16 -0000      1.465
+++ src/buffer.c        8 Nov 2004 03:56:49 -0000
@@ -1684,9 +1684,16 @@ the window-buffer correspondences.  */)
   char *err;

   if (EQ (buffer, Fwindow_buffer (selected_window)))
-    /* Basically a NOP.  Avoid signalling an error if the selected window
-       is dedicated, or a minibuffer, ...  */
-    return Fset_buffer (buffer);
+    {
+      /* Basically a NOP.  Avoid signalling an error if the selected window
+         is dedicated, or a minibuffer, ...  */
+      register Lisp_Object buf = Fset_buffer (buffer);
+
+      if (!NILP (buf) && NILP (norecord))
+        record_buffer (buf);
+
+      return buf;
+    }

   err = no_switch_window (selected_window);
   if (err) error (err);