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26.3; File opened by find-file appears in other window

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Johan Bengtsson <johan.bengtsson <at> iar.com>, 38197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38197: 26.3; File opened by find-file appears in other window
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:25:14 +0100

> If find-file is used on a file that already exists in a buffer and there
> is than one window then the buffer will be displayed in one of the

I suppose you mean "more" than one window here.

> non-active windows. If the file does not exist in a buffer it will be
> opened and displayed in the current window as expected.
>
> The problem seems to be related to the use of pop-to-buffer-same-window
> in find-file. If the definition of find-file is changed to use
> switch-to-buffer (as it was in emacs25) it works as expected.

I can't reproduce that here.  Regardless of whether the file's buffer
is shown in a window or not and whether there are one or two windows,
the file's buffeer is always shown in the selected window.  Please
provide a recipe with emacs -Q.

Thanks, martin

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