bug#37840: Missing in the Emacs manuals:

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: konrad.podczeck@univie.ac.at, 37840@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:18:48 +0100
> 
>  > That seems unfortunate.  Can we somehow make Speedbar insulated from
>  > the switch-to-buffer customizations?
> 
> The attached patch should do that.

LGTM, thanks.

> But there are probably too many similar cases out there.  Strictly
> spoken we should check each of our 'switch-to-buffer' calls for
> whether to
> 
> (1) convert it to 'set-window-buffer' (so no customization ever
>      affects it),
> 
> (2) bind 'switch-to-buffer-obey-display-actions' to nil around it (to
>      bow out comme il faut when the window is a minibuffer window or
>      dedicated to its buffer),
> 
> (3) call 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' instead, or
> 
> (4) leave it alone.

I think you are right.  Volunteers are welcome.