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bug#32850: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buf


From: martin rudalics
Subject: bug#32850: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:35:41 +0200

> For example, in such sequences of buffers:
>
>    *info*<1> *info*<2> *info*<3> *info*<4> *info*<5>
>    prev buffers      current buffer     next buffers
>
> and
>
>    *grep*<1> *grep*<2> *grep*<3> *grep*<4> *grep*<5>
>    prev buffers      current buffer     next buffers
>
> window-swap-states currently breaks the list of related buffers,
> e.g. after swapping only the window buffers, but not window
> prev/next-buffers:
>
>    *info*<1> *info*<2> *grep*<3> *info*<4> *info*<5>
>    prev buffers      current buffer     next buffers
>
> and
>
>    *grep*<1> *grep*<2> *info*<3> *grep*<4> *grep*<5>
>    prev buffers      current buffer     next buffers

This looks consistent to me.  The respectively "current" buffers have
been swapped and the previous and next buffers of each window remain
the same.

> 'C-x <C-left>' and 'C-x <C-right>' become broken.

In which sense?

> Forget 'rotate-window-buffers', it's a bad name and I want to throw it away.
> What I need is for Emacs to provide a consistent behavior by default.

So far I'm missing you.  How would you define consistency in this
context?

martin





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