GNU bug report logs - #61102
28.1; with-selected-window/save-window-excursion calls buffer-list-update-hook only once

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com, 61102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61102: 28.1; with-selected-window/save-window-excursion calls
 buffer-list-update-hook only once
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:06:00 +0200

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:04:52 +0100
> Cc: 61102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> 
>  > Martin, any comments on this?  FWIW, I'm not sure this is a bug, but
>  > maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> The doc-string of 'with-selected-window' says that:
> 
>    "It does not alter the buffer list ordering."
> 
> and the Elisp manual is more explicit by saying that
> 
>    "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’."
> 
> The one message the OP sees comes from this call in
> 'set-window-configuration'
> 
> 	select_window (data->current_window, Qnil, false);
> 
> 'set-window-configuration' itself is called by 'save-window-excursion'.

So do you agree with me that there's no bug here?

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