GNU bug report logs - #20020
25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:17:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 20020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20020: 25.0.50; `info-display-manual' should reuse existing window where buffer is displayed
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:16:15 +0200

>> Does anybody know?  In short: If there's a window that has the buffer,
>> then that window should be selected, and its frame popped to the top
>> (and given focus).  If not, it should work like `switch-to-buffer'.
>
> I'm not sure, maybe Martin could confirm this, but very likely
> you can use display-buffer-reuse-window here.

The basic ingredient is a suitable 'reusable-frames' ALIST entry which
should specify the frames on which to search for such a window.  Apart
from that, plain 'pop-to-buffer' should work.

martin
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