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29.0.50; [PATCH] Point associated with Window for good reasons

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Message #32 received at 57081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com, 57081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57081: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Point associated with Window for
 good reasons
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:08:43 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I don't think there's any easy way to get the action Dick described --
>> `C-x 2', `C-x b RET', and then have `C-x b <something-easy>' bring back
>> the same buffer in that window?
>
> Yes: <something-easy> is M-n, sometimes twice.

That's only the case if you've previously switched to a buffer in a way
that makes that buffer be in the history variable -- but there's a
number of ways to switch to a buffer without that happening.  Like `C-x
C-b' and then selecting a buffer there.

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