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30.0.50; `other-buffer' returns current buffer

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From: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba <at> kubajecminek.cz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 64497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, hugo <at> heagren.com
Subject: bug#64497: 30.0.50; `other-buffer' returns current buffer
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:11:08 +0000

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

>> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:16:21 +0100
>> From: hugo <at> heagren.com
>> 
>> I've just built Emacs from master. My binding to
>> `mode-line-other-buffer' wasn't doing what it should, so I investigated.
>> On my machine, the form `(other-buffer)' returns the current buffer.
>> 
>> I notice that a recent change to `other-buffer' relates to scratch
>> buffers (though my C isn't good enough to know what it really does). I
>> have tested this in a scratch buffer, and there too `(other-buffer)'
>> returns the current buffer (i.e. *scratch*).
>> 
>> `(other-buffer (current-buffer))' behaves as it -- i.e. returns a buffer
>> other than the current buffer.
>
> I cannot reproduce this with the current master branch, FWIW.

Should we close this?  No response in almost a year.

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