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27.0.50; point jumps unexpectedly after delete-window

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 32790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32790: 27.0.50; point jumps unexpectedly after delete-window
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:33:15 +0100

>> I'd invert these: The "-display-" infix implies that the buffer is
>> displayed and not popped to.
>
> Then easier just to rename it to windmove-pop-in-direction
> because most commands use pop-to-buffer, so this should be
> the default.

That would be much better.

> But currently I'm more concerned about inability to use switch-to-buffer,
> i.e. trying to display a buffer in another window with ‘S-M-down C-x b RET’
> doesn't work.

You mean wherever we can't use 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' instead?
'switch-to-buffer' is different.  Reconciling 'force-same-window' and
'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' looks rather painful to me.

> I tried to temporarily set dedicated-p to an old window,
> but switch-to-buffer removes its dedicatedness.

What did you try exactly?  Naively spoken, I suppose you would have
bound the dedicated flag of the selected window to 't' to make
sure it can't get used and 'switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window' to
'pop' to avoid a user error.

martin

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