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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com>
Cc: 73446-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73446: 29.1; Curious behaviour with with-current-buffer and read-string
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:50:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86setpcapw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0jzf1t7i9.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Al Haji-Ali on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:07:42 +0100)

> From: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com>
> Cc: 73446@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:07:42 +0100
> 
> 
> On 24/09/2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If this is what you do, then it's the expected behavior: test1 is
> > displayed in another window, and so its window-point overrides what
> > you do.  See the node "Window Point" in the ELisp manual.
> >
> > This is not a bug.
> 
> Ah I see. It is interesting that even if the window displaying the
> buffer is shown but seemingly not selected (since the focus is on the
> minibuffer during `read-string`), the point gets reset to the
> window-point when Emacs waits for user input.
> 
> I vote to close this issue and apologies for the noise.

Thanks, I'm closing it.  But there's no need to apologize: Emacs is a
very complex beast, and no one knows all of its subtleties by heart.





      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-24 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-24  8:19 bug#73446: 29.1; Curious behaviour with with-current-buffer and read-string Al Haji-Ali
2024-09-24 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-24 13:12   ` Al Haji-Ali
2024-09-24 13:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-24 15:07       ` Al Haji-Ali
2024-09-24 15:50         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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