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dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 1806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1806: dired-pop-to-buffer in wrong place
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:35:45 +0200

> I guess that depends on why switch-to-buffer-other-window uses
> pop-to-buffer.

Because it was convenient that way - before 1985 just as now.

> Note that the use of pop-to-buffer already causes the curent behavior to
> be different from the doc you cite: with pop-up-frames set to non-nil,
> if the currently selected window is the only window, it is not split:
> another frame is creqated instead.

Indeed.  But my point remains that I'm not sure whether switching from
`switch-to-buffer' or `switch-to-buffer-other-window' to `pop-to-buffer'
and not using the selected window in the former (or using the selected
window in the latter) case might cause indignations of users.  Also so
because the `switch-to...' functions are frequently used by Elisp code.

martin

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