bug#25946: 26.0.50; display-buffer ignores ignores reusable-frames in display-buffer-alist

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 11:34:33 +0100 martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> Can some kind soul please apply the attached patch to master?  The
> commit message is
>
>
> In `window--display-buffer' fix behavior reported in Bug#25946
>
> * lisp/window.el (window--display-buffer): Set the dedicated
> status of the window used and clear its history of previous
> buffers also for the case that the window already shows the
> buffer to be displayed.  (Bug#25946)
>
>
> Many thanks in advance, martin
>
> diff --git a/lisp/window.el b/lisp/window.el
> index 358d7bc..5050243 100644
> --- a/lisp/window.el
> +++ b/lisp/window.el
> @@ -6643,11 +6643,11 @@ window--display-buffer
>      (display-buffer-record-window type window buffer)
>      (unless (eq buffer (window-buffer window))
>        (set-window-dedicated-p window nil)
> -      (set-window-buffer window buffer)
> -      (when dedicated
> -     (set-window-dedicated-p window dedicated))
> -      (when (memq type '(window frame))
> -     (set-window-prev-buffers window nil)))
> +      (set-window-buffer window buffer))
> +    (when dedicated
> +      (set-window-dedicated-p window dedicated))
> +    (when (memq type '(window frame))
> +      (set-window-prev-buffers window nil))
>      (let ((quit-restore (window-parameter window 'quit-restore))
>         (height (cdr (assq 'window-height alist)))
>         (width (cdr (assq 'window-width alist)))

I pushed it in your name as commit 702aeca.

Steve Berman