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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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? 

It's a user command (on `C-x 4 C-o'), and apparently some people use it
a lot?  I've never used it myself, but I see the charm -- if you want
to look at a different buffer while working in the current buffer, it
seems quite convenient.  (You don't have to pop back to the original
buffer as with `switch-to-buffer-other-window' or the like.)

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