bug#781: 23.0.60; C-x C-f after C-x 4 b doesn't work (perhaps ido-mode related)

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Now do this with C-x 4 b. If you now try C-x C-f you get to the find-file 
>> dialog, but if you now enter one it doesn't open it in a new window but in 
>> the old one. I think this is a very unlogic behaviour.
>
> I must be missing something: C-x C-f always opens the file in the
> current (i.e. old) window, doesn't it?

If ido is active, C-x 4 b runs ido-switch-buffer-other-window.

This calls ido-buffer-internal with method = 'other-window.

If you call C-x C-f from inside this, ido-file-internal gets called.

But it gets called with method = ido-default-file-method rather than
'other-window (though other-window is an option). The OP would prefer
the latter.