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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> This
>
> +  (when-let ((window (display-buffer-use-some-window
> +                      buffer (cons (cons 'inhibit-same-window t) alist))))
> +    (window-bump-use-time window)))
>
> alone will bump the use time for a _reused_ window only.  A freshly
> popped up window will continue to be the first candidate for reuse and
> only then enter the cycle of windows to reuse.

How do we bump the use to for a new window, then?

> XEmacs treats _all_ windows it creates or uses equal in this regard
> including those on other frames.

Oh, other frames, too...  I think we'll leave that as an exercise for
the reader.

>> The only oddity is that it'll resize windows to their previous sizes --
>> is there any way to inhibit that?
>
> How comes that window gets ever resized in the first place?

I have no idea, but it's totally repeatable -- the window that's
switched to becomes the largest window, and it's rather distracting.

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