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

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 02:39:35 +0300

For a long time I've been using my own implementation that swaps window states:

  (defun rotate-window-buffers (&optional n)
    "Exchange buffers in all windows N times.
  With positive N, it uses the window order of `window-list'.
  With negative N, does this in the reverse order."
    (interactive "p")
    (let* ((ws (window-list))
           (ls (mapcar (lambda (w)
                         (list (window-buffer w)
                               (window-point w)
                               (window-next-buffers w)
                               (window-prev-buffers w)))
                       ws))
           (n  (mod (or n 1) (length ws))))
      (dolist (w (append (last ws n) (butlast ws n)))
        (let ((l (pop ls)))
          (set-window-buffer w (nth 0 l))
          (set-window-point  w (nth 1 l))
          (set-window-next-buffers w (nth 2 l))
          (set-window-prev-buffers w (nth 3 l))))))

Now I wanted to throw it away and to use window-swap-states
from Emacs core that should do the same.  But after trying
I see that window-swap-states breaks the order of window buffers
for 'C-x <C-left>' (previous-buffer) and 'C-x <C-right>' (next-buffer)
because it doesn't swap window-prev-buffers and window-next-buffers.

Shouldn't window-swap-states also swap prev/next buffers?

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