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27.0.50; pop-to-buffer in next-error-no-select

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 32607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32607: 27.0.50; pop-to-buffer in next-error-no-select
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:28:35 +0200

> The special case is in next-error-no-select.  Its purpose is to display
> the next-error buffer (the buffer with the location of the next-error),
> not to display next-error-last-buffer (the buffer with the list of errors)
> because next-error-last-buffer is already displayed.  The user runs
> next-error-no-select from the selected window that already displays
> next-error-last-buffer, there is no need to try and display the same
> buffer again.  This behavior is not even documented.  So pop-to-buffer
> is useless here.  But I suspect that maybe it was added for some use cases
> to ensure that next-error-last-buffer is displayed.  So at least
> we need to make it harmless.  But currently it makes harm with the
> reported configuration.  I provided a patch to fix next-error-no-select
> to not fail with the legitimate user configuration.

I suppose the idea is to implicitly emphasize the "-no-select" postfix
by showing 'next-error-buffer' somewhere and simultaneously selecting
a window showing 'next-error-last-buffer'.  That's a rather unpleasant
hack, your analysis is correct and 'display-buffer-overriding-action'
is a valid remedy here (it's at least as good as

  (unless (get-buffer-window next-error-last-buffer)
    (pop-to-buffer next-error-last-buffer))

IMHO) so install it.

martin

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