bug#17675: 24.4.50; *gud* buffer keeps on getting buried

[Noam Postavsky]

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:

> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:
>>
>>> -    (switch-to-buffer (concat "*gud" filepart "*"))
>>> +    (select-window
>>
>> Is this select-window call neeeded?
>
> I think so, since `display-buffer' does not necessarily select the window
> in which it displays the buffer, whereas the `switch-to-buffer' it is
> replacing displays the buffer in the currently selected window.
> Certainly in this case you want the "*gud*" buffer to be the selected
> buffer after this command.
>
> This bug was actually "fixed" using my original suggestion of binding
> `inhibit-same-window' to t, but I am not qualified to say which solution
> is "more correct."  See
> <URL:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=fd93edbb1cabfdf0c732dbb0c6892a515b406a65>.

The inhibit-same-window fixes this bug, but your patch above seems to
fix Bug#22374.