Re: Jumping to C source from *Help*

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is supposed to mean that display-buffer won't choose the dedicated
> window.  Originally, switch-to-buffer was permitted in dedicated
> windows, so you could change buffers in them "manually", but Emacs
> would not change it "automatically".

> However, later on, Fswitch_to_buffer was changed to get an error in
> dedicated windows.  I am not sure whether that is the right behavior,
> but I would guess it was intended to avoid bad results in some real
> situations.

It'd probably be OK if C-x b overrode the `dedicated' bit.  But it's
definitely not OK for the switch-to-buffer function when called from elisp
packages because they all too often use switch-to-buffer without thinking
what it really means (because the author typically rarely if ever uses
multiple frames and has barely heard of pop-to-buffer, let alone
special-display-buffer-names).


        Stefan