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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: rswgnu@gmail.com, 24021@debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#24021: FEATURE ADDITION: 25.0.94: goto-marker, jumps to a marker potentially in a different buffer
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:49:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7bsf6lh.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fur5cbu5.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs@users.sourceforge.net's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:55:30 -0400")

npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:

> It really just makes more sense to let the caller do (switch-to-buffer
> (current-buffer)) if needed.  Or display-buffer, or pop-to-buffer.  Not
> hard coding the switch-to-buffer call makes the function more flexible
> and usable in more situations.

I think that because of this, I don't think that a goto-marker function
is all that useful -- there's so many ways that you can "go" to a
different buffer that it's best to do that explicitly.

So I don't think this would be a generally useful function, and I'm
therefore closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-01 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 16:23 bug#24021: FEATURE ADDITION: 25.0.94: goto-marker, jumps to a marker potentially in a different buffer Robert Weiner
2016-07-19  0:05 ` npostavs
2016-07-19  2:05   ` Robert Weiner
2016-07-19  2:20     ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-19 13:15   ` Robert Weiner
2016-07-20  1:55     ` npostavs
2021-12-01 19:49       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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