Re: Window configurations

[Juri Linkov]

>> (1) All calls to `other-buffer' for determining which buffer to show in
>> a window have the second argument nil.  So if a buffer is already shown
>> in another window it's against some unwritten rule to show it in the
>> window in question again.  If I follow that rule, then working with two
>> windows showing the same buffer remains just as tedious as it is now.
>
> Yes, the window handling code currently considers that the most likely
> thing the user wants is to see a buffer that's not currently shown.
> [ I'm not sure if it's careful to distinguish "shown on the current
> terminal" from "shown in some other terminal, miles away from here",
> which it should. ]
> This seems like a good default rule, so if we/you want to not follow
> this rule in some cases, we should think about how we can tell which is
> the better choice in a given situation.

It's a good default rule for some cases like switching to another
buffer with e.g. `C-x b', for other cases (like killing a buffer
and finding another buffer to show in its place) a better rule
would be to not see if that buffer is currently shown.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/