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Selecting buffer automatically

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 67993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67993: Selecting buffer automatically
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 15:56:45 +0100

> Could you suggest an alternative to 'old-selected-window'
> to select the original window that was selected before
> the current command?

In 'display-buffer' first save the selected window as
old-selected-window, display the buffer and in your code select
old-selected-window instead of (old-selected-window).

Better, rename "select-window" to "window-to-select" so grepping won't
confuse it with a 'select-window' call and allow for an arbitrary window
(or even buffer, but there could be two windows showing the same buffer)
to use as the finally selected window in 'display-buffer'.  And maybe
have 'pop-to-buffer' and friends pass (select-window . t) instead of
calling 'select-window' themselves and think of what has to happen when
the window made or used by 'display-buffer' is on another frame that
should be (de-)selected.

martin

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