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#45688
28.0.50; New action for display-buffer?
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Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:03:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 28.0.50
Fixed in version 28.1
Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> I'm not sure I understand what kind of use case would find the above
> convenient. display-buffer is supposed to be for temporary display of
> some buffer that you soon enough want to go away, so why does it
> matter which buffer it replaces?
It's a user command (on `C-x 4 C-o'), and apparently some people use it
a lot? I've never used it myself, but I see the charm -- if you want
to look at a different buffer while working in the current buffer, it
seems quite convenient. (You don't have to pop back to the original
buffer as with `switch-to-buffer-other-window' or the like.)
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