bug#5391: python.el: reuse (sometimes) Python comint buffer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Bojan Nikolic <bojan@bnikolic.co.uk> writes:

> The run-python function in Emacs 22 python.el used to reuse comint
> buffers, which I found very useful. The attached patch I think gets
> back close to this behaviour, i.e.:
>
>   If buffer python-buffer is live and "new" hasn't been specified that
>   buffer is reused and the new comint process is started
>   there. Otherwise it is started in a newly created buffer.

[...]

> -              (generate-new-buffer "*Python*")
> +              (if (and (buffer-live-p python-buffer)
> +                       (not new))
> +                  python-buffer
> +                (generate-new-buffer "*Python*"))

Looking at the code, this seems to have changed:

          (apply 'make-comint-in-buffer "Python"
                 (generate-new-buffer "*Python*")
                 (car cmdlist) nil (cdr cmdlist)))

Is this patch still relevant?                 

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