GNU bug report logs - #36161
27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW

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Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 36161 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36161: 27.0.50; display-buffer-in-previous-window might choose not to use PREVIOUS-WINDOW
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:29:08 +0300

In particular, the last paragraph. When PREVIOUS-WINDOW and the selected
window are the same, it can select a different window, contrary to its
description. Which is a problem for xref--show-pos-in-buf, like I've
mentioned in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33992#52.

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 58, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
 of 2019-06-10 built on zappa
Repository revision: 0f67be92592ef82d971d004f4063e68682c123de
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12001000
System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 362 days ago.

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