Re: changed output of buffer-list?

[martin rudalics]

> Notice that even though the buffer `*ielm*' is active,

... where "active" means "the buffer of the selected window" ...

> the first buffer
> in the list is actually `.article'. (Which is the buffer in which I'm
> writing this post. I switched to `*ielm*' just to perform the test
> above; I used `C-x b', bound to `switch-to-buffer', to switch.)

You should make a bug report.  What you see might be related to revision
#112250 on trunk but I don't have a copy here, so I cannot check it.

(BTW, the doc-string of `buffer-list' contains a typo.)

martin