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24.4; Cannot switch buffers in a dedicated window - report this error earlier

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 20472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20472: 24.4; Cannot switch buffers in a dedicated window
 - report this error earlier
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 12:41:42 +0200

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> An alternative would be to make C-x b use another window in such a case.
> I.e. remove the `force-same-window' argument (I think that would make
> sense at least for the window-minibuffer-p case).

Agreed.

> An other alternative
> would be to un-dedicate the window (only after prompting the user, tho).

Patch attached.  In the *log-edit-files* case we could additionally make
the window weakly dedicated in order to avoid this problem all together.

martin

[switch-to-buffer.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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