bug#17719: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `switch-to-buffer-other-frame' does not use other frame

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:53:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> This regression seems to have been introduced in Emacs 23.  There is no
> such problem in Emacs 22.3 and prior.
> 
> emacs -Q
> 
> Visit some file, say foo.el, alone in the frame.
> 
> C-x 2 C-x 3 ; show the buffer in 3 windows
> 
> C-x 5 b foo.el ; type the same buffer name, explicitly
> 
> One of the other windows on the same frame is selected.

That's the intended behavior, AFAIK.  The behavior changed in one of
the last versions (not sure exactly which one, but could very well be
Emacs 23).