Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add refresh all buffers functionality

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add refresh all buffers functionality

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:09:07 -0300

To: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adi@adirat.com> writes:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adi@adirat.com> wrote:
>> Argh, so right after I posted this I found a bug: for every new window
>> in which you open the same notmuch-show buffer it creates a new buffer.
>>
>> For example if from notmuch-search you open a thread "hello" in multiple
>> windows, each window will show a different "hello<1>" "hello<2>" etc
>> buffer instead of showing a single "hello" buffer for all windows.
>
> This is really weird. I'm experiencing this bug even without my patches
> so it's not a fault in my code. I've tried with both emacs 25.1 and the
> latest emacs git rev, does anyone else experience this behaviour?
>
> Am I missing something, is this an expected behaviour and not a bug?

I don't (yet) have an opinion on whether this is a bug, but I can
confirm the behaviour exists, e.g. using devel/try-emacs-mua -Q in emacs 24.5.1

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