Subject: bug#52688: 29.0.50; term / use display-buffer

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:48:20 +0100

[email-masked] writes:

> The function 'term' use actually 'switch-to-buffer'. I think it's better
> to let users decide where the window will appear with
> 'display-buffer-alist' or 'display-buffer-base-action', and so, to use
> 'display-buffer'.

[...]

> -  (switch-to-buffer "*terminal*"))
> +  (display-buffer "*terminal*"))

This would change the behaviour considerably from the current one, so I
don't think this would fly.  But we could use
`pop-to-buffer-same-window', I guess?

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