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Re: How to know the buffer I will return to from the minibuffer?
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: How to know the buffer I will return to from the minibuffer? |
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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:00:05 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2019-02-14, at 09:39, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 08:10:54AM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I am writing an interactive command to be used while in the minibuffer.
>> I need to know the buffer I was in when I issued the command that put me
>> in the minibuffer (like M-: or M-!). I tried (other-buffer
>> (current-buffer)) and (last-buffer (current-buffer)), but to no avail.
>> Then I re-read the docs for `other-buffer' and used this: (other-buffer
>> (current-buffer) t), and it seemed to work. The question is, how
>> reliable it is. Am I doing this correctly?
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> There's also minibuffer-selected-window (Emacs 27.0.50 here):
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> minibuffer-selected-window is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
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> (minibuffer-selected-window)
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> Return window selected just before minibuffer window was selected.
> Return nil if the selected window is not a minibuffer window.
> This function does not change global state, including the match data.
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> HTH
> -- tomás
Yes, that seems to help a lot - thanks!
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Marcin Borkowski
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