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invoking switch-buffers would shuffle the buffers, not showing you where you currently are
you immediately lose mental context when invoking switch-buffer as the page would immediately switch
1 is a problem because if you think about set-url it prefills with the current URL. People are used to the current element being shown first, and then being mutated.
Those may seem like the exact same problem twice, but they are slightly different. With point 1 above, I am trying to highlight that you don't want switch-buffers to actually change the recency of access for buffers.
In commit b3dcf84 @jmercouris changed the behaviour of
switch-buffer
to not move the last buffer to the top.While this is convenient when follow-mode is on, it removes the ability to easily "alt-tab" between the last two buffers.
@jmercouris Can you remind me of the rationale behind not shuffling buffers?
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