Re: same-window-buffer-names and -regexps

[Miles Bader]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> Setting the two variables to nil is no solution, because then M-x
> shell and friends malfunction.
> 
> One solution would be to have M-x shell and friends check these
> variables (instead of having display-buffer do that directly) and
> then have these functions pass an appropriate flag to display-buffer.

That would be a silly solution.

I think the right thing to do is to have `C-x 4 C-o' invoke a command
that binds those variables to nil and calls display-buffer (instead of
invoking display-buffer directly, as it does now).

-Miles
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