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28.2; switch-to-buffer in normal window fails if minibuffer window is active

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Message #62 received at 63967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: al <at> petrofsky.org, 63967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#63967: 28.2; switch-to-buffer in normal window fails if
 minibuffer window is active
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 10:10:17 +0200

>> If w->prev_buffers gets us the right minibuffer to display here (any
>> former dw->prev_buffers = sw->prev_buffers should guarantee that), then
>> for that buffer we have to establish the corresponding start and point
>> positions.  This makes sense regardless of whether the minibuffer window
>> will be selected or not.
>
> But read_minibuf_unwind already does all that when it restores the
> window configuration, doesn't it?  Or is there something about the
> mini-window that restoring window configuration doesn't handle
> correctly?

I can imagine the following scenario: read_minibuf saves and restores up
to two window configurations - the one of the frame from where it was
invoked and the one of the frame that owned the corresponding minibuffer
window at that time.  Now with 'minibuffer-follows-selected-frame'
non-nil there might be another frame the user may want to continue the
interaction with and the configuration of that frame will not be
automatically restored upon exiting read_minibuf.  Yet, the minibuffer
window on that frame should be restored properly to show its previous
buffer, point etc.

martin

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