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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> As Martin explained, display-buffer-use-some-window almost does this,
>> but since switching to the buffer doesn't count as "use", it doesn't
>> work for this particular use case.
>
> Switching to the buffer does count as "use" but 'display-buffer' doesn't
> switch to the buffer because it doesn't select it.

Sorry; I meant "use the window".

> Add a function say 'window-bump-use-time' that does
>
>       w->use_time = ++window_select_count;
>
> and call that from `display-buffer'.

Thanks!

I've now pushed this -- like I said, my familiarity with this area in
Emacs is approx. nil, so if this implementation is beyond stupid, please
feel free to pipe up.  :-)

But with this setting:

  (setq display-buffer-base-action '(display-buffer-use-least-recent-window))

it's quite XEmacs-like?  I think?  At least in my tests.  So now we've
got that all-important ex-XEmacs market segment covered.

The only oddity is that it'll resize windows to their previous sizes --
is there any way to inhibit that?

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