From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 1175@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1175: 23.0.60; bookmark code regression
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:32:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3aiib1xn.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljwhsxb3.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:54:56 -0400")
>> Please, please restore the sane behavior of `bookmark-jump-noselect'
>> as it was for Emacs 22: it should return a cons (BUFFER . POINT) when
>> a bookmark is located.
> I discussed with Stefan. Since bookmark-jump-noselect is an internal
> function of bookmark.el, we don't guarantee that its behavior is
> unchanged across Emacs versions. Furthermore, the
> bookmark-jump-noselect not only returned (BUFFER . POINT) but also
> preserved the current buffer (and point) instead of changing buffer and
> moving point, whereas the new version does change buffer and point. So
> it doesn't make sense to change the return value of the new version.
I think there's a slight disagreement: I think it's worthwhile to
preserve the old semantics of bookmark-jump-noselect, but not by
changing the current one: instead, we should rename b-j-n to something
else and write a new b-j-n wrapper.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 16:54 bug#1175: 23.0.60; bookmark code regression Chong Yidong
2008-10-21 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-22 6:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-27 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2008-10-16 17:36 Chong Yidong
2008-10-15 20:51 Drew Adams
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