Subject: Re: bug#37745: (save-window-excursion (shell) (buffer-name (current-buffer)))

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:26:42 +0200

>> In many versions of Emacs the sexp below
 >>
 >>    (save-window-excursion (shell) (buffer-name (current-buffer)))
 >>
 >> returns "*shell*", but in some recent versions it returns the name of
 >> the current buffer instead.
 >
 > This seems to be introduced by
 >
 > commit 59191cd0cbe8463f9095a71cb4048bb138d6e446
 > Author: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
 > Date:   Sun Apr 2 11:02:54 2017 +0200
 >
 >      Apply connecion-local variables for shells
 >
 > if I read the log right.
 >
 > It wraps the `pop-to-buffer' in a `(with-current-buffer buffer', so
 > current-buffer doesn't change like it used to.

Why can't you simply use (buffer-name (shell)) instead?

martin