From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: goto-char doesn't stick
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:13:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03485ABD-CF71-4FF8-B887-ED7607341EBD@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtN0WJoJopKRPJmUz2=04x+ocBGbOP7QRph2b6T2iwPniL04Q@mail.gmail.com>
On June 14, 2017 12:45:15 PM GMT+03:00, "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have been trying to figure out why M-. in SLIME sometimes doesn't
>move
>point to the correct location in the file, and I discovered the
>following
>strange behaviour:
>
>Assuming the cursor is at some random position in buffer "z", The SLIME
>code essentially does the following to move the cursor to a given
>location:
>
> (progn
> (set-buffer "z")
> (goto-char LOCATION))
>
>When I do this, point doesn't move. Or rather, it does move, but after
>the
>conclusion of the ‘progn’ form, the cursor returns to its original
>location. This is what causes the SLIME navigation functions to not
>work
>correctly.
>
>Has this behaviour changed recently? I haven't seen anyone else
>complain
>about this, but then again, I usually run Emacs compiled from git
>master,
>so it may be that this has changed in newer versions.
>
>Regards,
>Elas
It's a feature, new in Emacs 26. If you don't like it, turn off
switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point.
Perhaps we should have a let-bindable variable to momentsrily disable this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-14 9:45 goto-char doesn't stick Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 9:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-14 10:02 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 10:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-14 10:32 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 11:01 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <CADtN0WJdwdFhTL2_=ZQbADKT0p+PKCJKfkjqt7hNdQduq5bmCQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-14 11:09 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 10:22 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2017-06-14 10:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-14 10:30 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-06-14 11:16 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-14 14:59 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 3:53 ` Alex
2017-06-14 14:05 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-14 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 6:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 11:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-15 12:55 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-15 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 19:10 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-15 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 22:51 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-16 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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