GNU bug report logs - #45072
28.0.50; Emacs switches other buffer back uncontrollably, if other window's buffer is changed by user during minibuffer editing

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Message #122 received at 45072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, larsi <at> gnus.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>,
 45072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45072: 28.0.50; Emacs switches other buffer back
 uncontrollably, if other window's buffer is changed by user during minibuffer
 editing
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 08:26:34 +0100

> I tried to add it to 'exit-minibuffer', and it seems working fine
> with non-nil read-from-minibuffer-restore-windows, and I know no other
> place that could call minibuffer-hide-completions:

But 'minibuffer-hide-completions' uses 'bury-buffer' which would delete
the completions window unconditionally even when it was only reused for
showing completions.  IMO 'bury-buffer' is practically always the wrong
choice for Lisp functions to call.

martin

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