GNU bug report logs - #8936
24.0.50; Incompatible change in the meaning of "other window"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs <at> rgrjr.dyndns.org>

Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 8936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 8936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rogers-emacs <at> rgrjr.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: bug#8936: 24.0.50;
	Incompatible change in the meaning of "other window"
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:54:19 -0400

> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:29:14 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Cc: 8936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> If Emacs can't split a window I currently make a new frame because the
> doc-string of `switch-to-buffer-other-window' explicitly says that "The
> selected window will be used only if there is no other choice" and
> making a new frame _is_ another choice.  If people think that reusing
> the selected window is a better choice I can easily do that.

What could possibly prevent Emacs from splitting the current window in
two?  Only dimensions, or are there other reasons?
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