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

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 06.07.2011 03:49, schrieb Glenn Morris:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > Most of those calls were bugs waiting to catch you in Emacs<23 ("you"
> > being typically a user like myself who uses dedicated windows and/or
> > minibuffer-only frames).
> [...]
> > > Isn't there a better way to handle this than replacing hundreds of
> > > calls with `pop-to-buffer-same-window'?
> >
> > Not sure what that way would be.
>
> Fix switch-to-buffer?
>
> Eg make it call pop-to-buffer-same-window in the non-interactive-case?
> Then make a new function
> switch-to-buffer-sometimes-fails-and-you-probably-dont-want-this
> that does what the old version used to?
>
> Since you say above that "most" calls to switch-to-buffer were wrong,
> why not fix the majority by fixing switch-to-buffer, and let the
> minority of cases which need to do something different do so, if and
> when it turns out to matter?

Hi,

AFAIU switch-to-buffer is simply not TRT when called from a program.
AFAICT it has the nasty side-effect slowing down execution, introducing 
that kind of bug at least.

So far marking "for interacive use only" looks correct for me.

Cheers,

Andreas