bug#20353: M-. sometimes jumps in another window

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: Emacs
Version: 25.0.50


I tend to use many frames.  When I hit M-. I sometimes get a new popup
frame asking me to choose a destination.  All good so far.

But sometimes once I choose my destination, xref choose the wrong window
to display that destination.  More specifically I get the following scenario:

- Window 1 (in frame 1) showing buffer B.
- Window 2 (in frame 2) showing buffer B as well.
- In window 1 I do M-.
- Get a popup to choose the destination.
- Choose some destination D which is also in buffer B.
- And here's the downer: sometimes Emacs decides to then select window
  2 to jump to D, instead of using the window 1 for that.


        Stefan




In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2015-04-14 on pastel
Repository revision: 12f00667ebea0fe4c1e173f9d15192c75471d9d3
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000
System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)

Configured using:
 `configure -C --enable-checking --enable-check-lisp-object-type
 'CFLAGS=-Wall -g3 -Og -Wno-pointer-sign'
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/monnier/lib/pkgconfig'

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GPM DBUS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2
FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: fr_CH.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: InactiveMinibuffer

Minor modes in effect:
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Recent messages:
Saving file /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.el...
Wrote /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.el
Mark saved where search started
Saving file /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.el...
Wrote /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.el
Quit
Warning: turn-on-eldoc-mode is obsolete!
Warning: hide-sublevels is obsolete!
Saving file /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/pcomplete.el...
Wrote /home/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/pcomplete.el

Load-path shadows:
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-ref-man hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-ref-man/ada-ref-man
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-prj hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/work/lisp/progmodes/ada-prj
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-stmt hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/work/lisp/progmodes/ada-stmt
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-mode hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/work/lisp/progmodes/ada-mode
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-xref hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/work/lisp/progmodes/ada-xref
/home/monnier/src/emacs/elpa/packages/crisp/crisp hides 
/home/monnier/src/emacs/work/lisp/obsolete/crisp

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