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23.0.60; `switch-to-buffer-other-window' sometimes uses selected window

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
Subject: bug#1237 closed by martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> (Re: 
 bug#1237: 23.0.60;	`switch-to-buffer-other-window' sometimes uses selected
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#1237: 23.0.60; `switch-to-buffer-other-window' sometimes uses selected window

It has been closed by martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: 1237-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
Subject: Re: bug#1237: 23.0.60;	`switch-to-buffer-other-window' sometimes
 uses selected window
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:14:05 +0100

Fixed as

2008-11-02  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

	* window.el (save-selected-window-norecord): New macro
	(walk-windows): Use save-selected-window-norecord and call
	select-window with NORECORD set.  (Bug#1237)

Thanks for the report, martin

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From: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; `switch-to-buffer-other-window' sometimes uses selected window
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:27:30 +0200 (CEST)

When you do:

   $ emacs -Q -f linum-mode

and then:

   C-x 2

you obtain one frame with two windows, the one on top being selected.

When you then do:

   M-: (switch-to-buffer-other-window "test") RET

the selected window is unexpectedly reused to display the new buffer.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.11 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-10-14 on mt-computer.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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