bug#4748: 23.1; least recently used window - is it?

[Stefan Monnier]

> But the main question is posed above. Given the aim of, in effect,
> making `pop-to-buffer' use a particular window, I tried to somehow set
> a window to be the lru. But that doesn't work because of the
> full-width criterion.

IIUC you tried to control which window pop-to-buffer was going to use,
by selecting windows, hoping to control what get-lru-window returns?
If you need that kind of control, you should either not use
pop-to-buffer and change pop-to-buffer to do what you want.

> I was hoping that simply making a window be the least recently used
> one would cause `pop-to-buffer' to use that window.

The window used by pop-to-buffer depends on so many different factors
that it's illusory to think you can control it from the outside.


        Stefan