From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-window-start in Elisp manual Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:11:50 +0100 Message-ID: <478F5416.6080009@gmx.at> References: <877ii9z8la.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200576062 12468 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2008 13:21:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 14:21:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFUg9-0005ZF-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:21:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFUfa-0002xF-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFUfU-0002wv-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFUfO-0002vX-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFUfO-0002vU-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFUfL-0005p7-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2008 13:20:12 -0000 Original-Received: from N794P007.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.43.39]) [62.47.43.39] by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 17 Jan 2008 14:20:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19oBnxYW85ohr9SibeUJux1kTTTKwfHngNiAMdOSC rJTmc/5sX4QjMv User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <877ii9z8la.fsf@escher.local.home> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87015 Archived-At: > When I try this (in GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version > 2.12.0) of 2008-01-16 on escher, also with -Q), the sexp does eval to 2, > but window-start and point remain at 1, and the buffer display does not > change. Is the example wrong, or is there a bug in set-window-start, or > am I misunderstanding the example? (If the latter, then I also do not > understand how set-window-start is supposed to work, so in that case I > would appreciate clarification.) FWIW this used to work in Emacs 20 but was already broken in Emacs 21. We would have to find out why and where `window-start' gets reset to 1.