bug#57081: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Point associated with Window for good reasons

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I don't think there's any easy way to get the action Dick described --
>> `C-x 2', `C-x b RET', and then have `C-x b <something-easy>' bring back
>> the same buffer in that window?
>
> Yes: <something-easy> is M-n, sometimes twice.

That's only the case if you've previously switched to a buffer in a way
that makes that buffer be in the history variable -- but there's a
number of ways to switch to a buffer without that happening.  Like `C-x
C-b' and then selecting a buffer there.