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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2012-11-18 22:16:03 -0500 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2012-11-18 22:16:03 -0500 |
| commit | d1c0cddf73e3edf4b1a7bbaa9e24caa817bd10e1 (patch) | |
| tree | e08f71956dc4a84c41b13cc7710f0db427678718 /lisp/window.el | |
| parent | 535efd4a430b6595a30efaa2919e565ad21209b9 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-d1c0cddf73e3edf4b1a7bbaa9e24caa817bd10e1.tar.gz | |
* lisp/window.el (switch-to-buffer): Re-add the warning that was lost in the
code rewrite.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/window.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/window.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/window.el b/lisp/window.el index d378ea5ff14..52909fa9e5f 100644 --- a/lisp/window.el +++ b/lisp/window.el @@ -5870,7 +5870,12 @@ the selected window or never appeared in it before, or if :version "24.3") (defun switch-to-buffer (buffer-or-name &optional norecord force-same-window) - "Switch to buffer BUFFER-OR-NAME in the selected window. + "Display buffer BUFFER-OR-NAME in the selected window. + +WARNING: This is NOT the way to work on another buffer temporarily +within a Lisp program! Use `set-buffer' instead. That avoids +messing with the window-buffer correspondences. + If the selected window cannot display the specified buffer (e.g. if it is a minibuffer window or strongly dedicated to another buffer), call `pop-to-buffer' to select the buffer in |