GNU bug report logs - #20489
25.0.50; next-error-find-buffer chooses non-current buffer without good reason

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Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 23:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 20489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#20489: 25.0.50; next-error-find-buffer chooses non-current buffer without good reason
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:33:18 -0500

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  > > On that subject: why did we make next-error-last-buffer always buffer-local?

  > next-error-last-buffer is buffer-local to keep the reference to the
  > parent buffer used to navigate to the current buffer, so the next call of
  > next-buffer will use the same parent buffer to continue navigation from it.

How about adding a comment to this effect?

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