bug#45688: 28.0.50; New action for display-buffer?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:02:12 +0100
> 
> 
> Say you start with this:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 2
> -----
> buf 3
> -----
> 
> and you're in buf 1.  `M-x display-buffer RET RET' then gives you:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 4
> -----
> buf 3
> -----
> 
> Repeat, and:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 4
> -----
> buf 2
> -----
> 
> Repeat, and:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 3
> -----
> buf 2
> -----
> 
> Repeat, and:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 3
> -----
> buf 4
> -----
> 
> Repeat, and:
> 
> -----
> buf 1
> -----
> buf 2
> -----
> buf 4
> -----
> 
> That is, it cycles the windows.  If there are more windows, it'll go
> through all the other windows in order, choosing the
> least-recently-switched-to window.

I'm not sure I understand what kind of use case would find the above
convenient.  display-buffer is supposed to be for temporary display of
some buffer that you soon enough want to go away, so why does it
matter which buffer it replaces?  Or if it does matter, wouldn't it be
more reasonable to have explicit control on that, instead of letting
it cycle?

I feel that I'm missing something here.