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27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 32850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32850: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers
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

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