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Re: switch to a buffer not shown in all screens ?

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From: Steve Pearlmutter
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 23:10
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>>>>> On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:04:51 GMT, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) said:

>    Did anyone write a function to switch to a buffer which is closest to the 
>    top of buffer stack and not displayed in all existing screens ?

> No, but I wrote one once to switch to a buffer in a screen that lies
> under all other screens except for the screen containing a window that
> held a buffer that was below the original buffer in the buffer stack,
> unless the window was in a screen that was currently iconified and the
> buffer was unmodified but above any other buffer that was contained in
> more than one window in the buffer stack, in which case I looped
> through the screen list looking for windows holding buffers that were
> in windows that were iconified but raised over all other screens
> holding windows with buffers that were shown in multiple windows with
> buffers that were only in one screen.

> Marc

Could you post it, please?  ;-)
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