Completely remove stringp check in special-display-p.

* window.el (special-display-p): Completely remove stringp
check.  Suggested by Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index fbcff3e97c0..2bd92de45e7 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-06-18  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
+
+        * window.el (special-display-p): Completely remove stringp
+        check.  Suggested by Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>.
+
 2012-06-17  Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
 
         * minibuffer.el (read-file-name-default): Bind `non-essential' to `t'.
diff --git a/lisp/window.el b/lisp/window.el
index 62cd226daec..6ea882d1ea2 100644
--- a/lisp/window.el
+++ b/lisp/window.el
@@ -4192,8 +4192,6 @@ or matches BUFFER-NAME, the return value is the cdr of that
 entry."
   (let (tmp)
     (cond
-     ((not (stringp buffer-name))
-      (error "Invalid buffer name %s" buffer-name))
      ((member buffer-name special-display-buffer-names)
       t)
      ((setq tmp (assoc buffer-name special-display-buffer-names))