Subject: Re: bug#17675: 24.4.50; *gud* buffer keeps on getting buried

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 19:59:44 -0400

Michael Welsh Duggan <[email-masked]> writes:

> And one more time, this time incorporating your suggestion more
> completely.
>
> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el
> index 24d5469..71dc574 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el
> @@ -2603,7 +2603,12 @@ comint mode, which see."
>  		      file-subst)))
>  	 (filepart (and file-word (concat "-" (file-name-nondirectory file))))
>  	 (existing-buffer (get-buffer (concat "*gud" filepart "*"))))
> -    (switch-to-buffer (concat "*gud" filepart "*"))
> +    (select-window

Is this select-window call neeeded?

> +      (display-buffer
> +       (get-buffer-create (concat "*gud" filepart "*"))
> +       '(display-buffer-reuse-window 
> +         display-buffer-in-previous-window
> +         display-buffer-same-window display-buffer-pop-up-window)))
>      (when (and existing-buffer (get-buffer-process existing-buffer))
>        (error "This program is already being debugged"))
>      ;; Set the dir, in case the buffer already existed with a different dir.

Martin, I see the switch-to-buffer is still present in master now,
should it be fixed?