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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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 45072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
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: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:30:44 +0300

* martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> [2020-12-10 10:45]:
> > What do you think about let-binding a new variable
> > read-minibuffer-record-windows to nil around functions
> > that pop up completion windows?
> >
> > I mean for example in minibuffer-completion-help:
> >
> >    (let ((read-minibuffer-record-windows nil))
> >      (display-completion-list completions))
> >
> > The default value of read-minibuffer-record-windows could be t,
> > so it will record new windows created by the user, e.g. by C-x 2.
> > But when let-bound to nil, it won't record windows created
> > by completion commands, so these windows won't be restored
> > after exiting the minibuffer.
> 
> We'd have to augment the 'quit-restore' mechanism somehow and run it on
> all windows instead of restoring the configuration.
> 
> But I still don't understand the logic of the following:
> 
> (1) Start minibuffer interaction, type a-
> 
> (2) Pop up a completion window for a- and accept suggestion a-b
> 
> (3) Type another - so you now get a-b-
> 
> (4) Pop up a completion window for a-b- and accept a-b-c
> 
> In this scenario I'd want, after accepting a-b, the completion window to
> disappear (or show its old buffer again) without the minibuffer action
> having terminated.  So I'm still convinced that restoring a previous
> state should be triggered by the completion mechanism and not by the
> read from minibuffer mechanism.

I am trying to see relevance here, maybe I miss something. The
built-in completion does not replace the window which I am looking it.
It may make its visible part somewhat smaller, but not replace it.

Then I change buffers in those windows. Apart from being made somewhat
narrower, windows are not replaced by completion. 

And I did not even use completion. I was entering information on minibuffer.

> One thing that has to be considered too is user interaction during
> completion: Suppose I have one window, the completion mechanism pops up
> a new one and I delete the old one

I have not ever see that in built-in Emacs completion. But maybe it exists. 

I have seen completion poping up new window, but not replacing or
deleting other window.

Jean

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