Re: switch-to-buffer: for interactive use only

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 22:50, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:

> It seems to me that such cases are very much in the minority---AFAICT,
> the vast majority of uses of switch-to-buffer in the Emacs sources
> simply have the intention "show BUFFER, but try not to make a new window
> to do it".
>
> So, if creating a new window is the wrong thing for bs-cycle-next, it
> should be bs-cycle-next that changes---e.g. by changing from
> switch-to-buffer to set-window-buffer---not everything else in Emacs.

I don't remember saying that it is the rest of Emacs which must be
changed; only that there are two different use cases, and we must
cater to both.

    Juanma