Subject: RE: bug#16024: 24.3.50; [PATCH] `switch-to-buffer*': prefix arg kills original buffer

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:20:55 -0800 (PST)

> > The attached patch makes `switch-to-buffer(-other-(window|frame))'
> > with a prefix arg act analogously to `find-alternate-file': the
> > buffer current before the switch is killed.
> 
> Hm...  what's the use case?

Just what it says: kill the current buffer and switch to another.

Same use case as for `find-alternate-file', but for any buffer,
not just a file buffer.