Subject: Re: bug#61102: 28.1; with-selected-window/save-window-excursion calls buffer-list-update-hook only once

From: Al Haji-Ali <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:08:55 +0000

On 02/02/2023, martin rudalics wrote:
>    "The ordering of recently selected windows and the buffer list remain
>     unchanged unless you deliberately change them within FORMS; for
>     example, by calling ‘select-window’ with argument NORECORD ‘nil’.
>     Hence, this macro is the preferred way to temporarily work with
>     WINDOW as the selected window without needlessly running
>     ‘buffer-list-update-hook’."

I see that the behaviour is not a bug as per the documentation.

But it does lead to strange behaviours in code or packages that rely on tracking the selected window since there is no way (that I see at least) to detect that the selected window did not change, or changed back at the end of executing this code.

Best regards,
-- Al