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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, larsi <at> gnus.org, 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: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:08:40 +0200

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:58:40 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   45072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I would prefer by default not to switch windows for me as if I am user
> and switched the other buffer why would I need it automatically back?
> I switched it because I do not need it.
> 
> Please understand how it is to work in a loop in minibuffer, many
> coordinates have to be entered carefully and various maps consulted,
> and then even though buffers were switched there and back on each new
> invocation of minibuffer prompt all those buffers go away.
> 
> >From the view point of having user control, I would rather have that
> option turned off by default.

I understand your POV, but we cannot possibly change such a
long-standing behavior by default.  It must start as an opt-in
behavior.  Later, when enough people tried it and said they'd like it
to be the default, we might start thinking about making it the
default.

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