M-x compile re-uses name of old compilation buffer, contrary to documentation

[Edward Welbourne]

I opened the top-level directory of a source tree, to make it current directory.
M-x compile
added cvs up; to start of make command-line, hit return
Killed directory buffer.  Switched to *compilation* and did
M-x rename-buffer
Supplied name *myprog update build*, left it to finish building.
After it'd finished I fixed a compile error and, with cursor in *myprog update 
build*, did
M-x compile
removed the cvs up; from the command-line, hit return.

The new compilation re-used *myprog update build* as its buffer,
instead of creating a new buffer called *compilation* as clearly
explained in the documentation for M-x compile, specifically when
explaining how to avoid conflict between compilations (albeit ones
running in parallel).

The problem with this is that I actually wanted to keep the ouptut
from the original build - it recorded what files I've got locally
changed, and contained compiler warnings that I wanted to fix !  I now
have to do another cvs up to recover the list of local changes; and
I'll need to make clean and make in order to recover the list of
warnings.

compilation-buffer-name-function is nil

This is probably just a documentation bug.
I can see the given behaviour might even be intended, it's just not
what I'm used to, so it caught me out.


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 of 2007-07-07 on raven, modified by Debian
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'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g 
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