2019-11-26 Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>

* lisp/window.el (switch-to-visible-buffer): Declare obsolete.
(switch-to-prev-buffer-skip): New option.
(switch-to-prev-buffer, switch-to-next-buffer): Obey
'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip'.
* doc/lispref/windows.texi (Window History): Remove
description of 'switch-to-visible-buffer'.  Describe new
option 'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip'
* etc/NEWS: Mention switch from 'switch-to-visible-buffer' to
'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip'.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a97cf20ea7c..2a14eb2ecfc 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -414,6 +414,16 @@ When non-nil, 'switch-to-buffer' uses 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' that
 respects display actions specified by 'display-buffer-alist' and
 'display-buffer-overriding-action'.
 
++++
+** The option 'switch-to-visible-buffer' is now obsolete.
+Customize 'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip' instead.
+
++++
+** New option 'switch-to-prev-buffer-skip'.
+This option allows to specify the set of buffers that may be shown by
+'switch-to-prev-buffer' and 'switch-to-next-buffer' more stringently
+than the now obsolete 'switch-to-visible-buffer'.
+
 ** New 'flex' completion style
 An implementation of popular "flex/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
 matches strings where the pattern appears as a subsequence.  Put