GNU bug report logs - #1161
23.0.60; Text being added to wrong buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:40:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1161: 23.0.60; Text being added to wrong buffer
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:25:10 -0600

jpff wrote:
> For a long time now I have been using a popup frame for diary
> reminders
...
> For the last few days sometimes i get a blank popup frame and the text
> of the appointment appears in another buffer I have open -- and that
> buffer is changed to read-only.  It has actually just happened again
> as I typed this message.
...
> This could be a compatability change but I am worried about text
> appearing in other buffers.

I can't comment on the correctness of your code or whether it's exposed
a bug, but I'd like to ask: What functionality do you want that is
missing from something simple like this:

(setq special-display-buffer-names
      (cons "*Appointments*" special-display-buffer-names))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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