Subject: Re: bug#32850: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:12:59 +0100

>> Today I think that we should instead pop up a menu of previous buffers
 >> when moving the mouse over the mode-line's buffer-name.
 >
 > Not intuitive at all.

Why not?  We currently tell there in a tooltip that it's a "buffer
name" and how to switch to the previous and next buffer.  Is that
intuitive?

 > Good idea.  Simply to add a conditional display to mode-line-format with
 >
 >    (and (not (window-in-direction 'down))
 >         (not (window-in-direction 'left)))

Right-adjusted would be fine to make it more clear that this is not a
window-buffer pertinent information.

martin