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bug#37745: (save-window-excursion (shell) (buffer-name (current-buffer))
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#37745: (save-window-excursion (shell) (buffer-name (current-buffer))) |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:26:42 +0200 |
>> In many versions of Emacs the sexp below
>>
>> (save-window-excursion (shell) (buffer-name (current-buffer)))
>>
>> returns "*shell*", but in some recent versions it returns the name of
>> the current buffer instead.
>
> This seems to be introduced by
>
> commit 59191cd0cbe8463f9095a71cb4048bb138d6e446
> Author: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Sun Apr 2 11:02:54 2017 +0200
>
> Apply connecion-local variables for shells
>
> if I read the log right.
>
> It wraps the `pop-to-buffer' in a `(with-current-buffer buffer', so
> current-buffer doesn't change like it used to.
Why can't you simply use (buffer-name (shell)) instead?
martin