Subject: bug#40919: 27.0.91; next-error-select-buffer does not always behave as documented

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 04:58:05 +0300

On 25.05.2020 00:48, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> Is this patch for master?  So there is enough time for thorough testing?
>> I think it's for master. Though if we put it into emacs-27 and changed the
>> default to the name of the new function, the behavior shouldn't change, and
>> yet it would be easier to "fix" this bug through user
>> configuration... (ʘ‿ʘ)
> Yes, this will fix the reported problem of customizability.
> Maybe Eli will agree to fix this in emacs-27.

I can post the corresponding patch, if it helps.

>> Suggestions for a better (shorter?) name for the new function welcome, by
>> the way.
> Maybe next-error-find-keep-navigation.

Short, but kinda cryptic (why "find"?). Not bad, but some other options:

next-error-maybe-current-keep-navigation
next-error-no-navigation-try-current