bug#33103: 25.2; tar-extract should support other-window and view simultaneously

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> in deb-view.el in Debian, I just patched in the following hack
>
>         (progn
>           (tar-extract-other-window)
>           (view-buffer (current-buffer) 'kill-buffer-if-not-modified))
>
> It seems to work, but I'd be much happier to something like
>
> (tar-extract 'view 'other-window)

I think the accepted method these days to determine how and when buffers
(and frames) are popped up/switched to is to use the display-buffer
machinery, so I'm closing this bug report.

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