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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: goto-char doesn't stick
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:25:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360fx2jm1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzid9dvr3.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:11:13 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:11:13 -0400
> 
> > You need to switch to "z" so that it is displayed in a window,
> > e.g. with "C-x b".  switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point does its
> > thing at that time.
> 
> Ah, so the OP wants to affect the future window-point?

Something like that, yeah.

> I don't think there's ever been a reliable way to do that

Right, I think it used to work only in very simple situations, and
definitely not when the same buffer is displayed at different
positions in several windows.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-15 18:25 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
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 [this message]
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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