GNU bug report logs - #10122
24.0.91; C-x C-v, invisible text: "Cannot switch...dedicated window"

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Message #17 received at 10122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 10122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10122: 24.0.91;
 C-x C-v, invisible text: "Cannot switch...dedicated window"
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:43:33 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Playing around a little more, I see that when you use `C-x C-v', even when there
> is no problem, it temporarily switches to another existing buffer in the same
> window.  That would seem to be the cause of the problem: If that buffer switched
> to is, like *Pp Eval Output* in my case, dedicated, then suddently it throws a
> monkey wrench in the system.  
>
> The dedicated nature of that temporarily substituted buffer should presumably
> not enter into the picture at all (if we in fact need to temporarily substitute
> some other buffer in that window).

There is no clear recipe, starting from -Q, to reproduce this problem.
Are you still seeing it?  If so, can you create a recipe?

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