Re: Window configurations

[Juri Linkov]

>> There is another case that is more annoying:
>>
>> 1. Run `emacs -q', the current buffer is "*scratch*".
>>
>> 2. Type `C-h i', the current buffer is "*info*".
>>
>> 3. Type `C-h C-t', the current buffer is "TODO".
>>
>> 4. Type `C-h C-n', the current buffer is "NEWS".
>>
>> 5. Type `C-x k RET', the current buffer is the previous buffer "TODO", good.
>>
>> 6. Type `C-x k RET', the current buffer is "*scratch*".  Why?
>>    The previous buffer is "*info*", not "*scratch*"!
>
> This happened in revision 90833 of `pop-to-buffer' from 2008-09-13.
> Since then `pop-to-buffer' doesn't reselect the selected window.
>
> The culprit is this conditional
>
>     (unless (eq new-window old-window)
>       ;; `display-buffer' has chosen another window, select it.
>
> which does not select the *info* window because it was already selected
> before but obviously doesn't record the *info* buffer either :-(
>
> I'm running my code without the conditional for more than two months
> now so it shouldn't harm if you remove it as well.

I tried to remove the conditional, but it doesn't help.
Maybe some other your changes fixed that?

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Juri Linkov
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