bug#74773: [PATCH] Elaborate doc string for rcirc-next-active-buffer

[Leo Liu]

> On 11 Dec 2024, at 20:21, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:20:04 -0700
>> From:  Scott Bell via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> I found the current behavior of rcirc-next-active-buffer surprising in
>> the case where there is no activity, so I thought it could be described
>> in the doc string.
> 
> Leo and Philip, is this okay to install?

After checking all irc buffers with activity, the next rcirc-next-active-buffer 
returns you back to the buffer where your work is ie non irc buffers.

So the patch doesn’t add much though harmless.

— Leo

> 
>>> From b5a3f93c006316d53139bbd308afbf4c70c89289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Scott Bell <sctb@me.com>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:02:54 -0700
>> Subject: [PATCH] ; * lisp/net/rcirc.el (rcirc-next-active-buffer): Doc string
>> 
>> ---
>> lisp/net/rcirc.el | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/lisp/net/rcirc.el b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
>> index c41e2ec153f..33e4008fc0b 100644
>> --- a/lisp/net/rcirc.el
>> +++ b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
>> @@ -2448,7 +2448,8 @@ rcirc-bury-buffers
>> 
>> (defun rcirc-next-active-buffer (arg)
>>   "Switch to the next rcirc buffer with activity.
>> -With prefix ARG, go to the next low priority buffer with activity."
>> +With prefix ARG, go to the next low priority buffer with activity.
>> +When there are no buffers with activity, bury all rcirc buffers."
>>   (interactive "P")
>>   (let* ((pair (rcirc-split-activity rcirc-activity))
>>          (lopri (car pair))
>> --
>> 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
>>