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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Note that (set-window-buffer (selected-window) buffer) isn't quite good
>> enough, since set-window-buffer will be happy to change the buffer of
>> a mini-window, whereas callers of switch-to-buffer that want to operate
>> on the selected window should signal an error in that case.
>> I think adding a `selected-window-only' argument to switch-to-buffer is
>> a better solution so callers don't need to worry about such details of
>> set-window-buffer.

> What precisely would the semantics of this argument be?

That if the buffer can't be shown in the selected window, then it should
signal an error rather than try to use some other window.


        Stefan