From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: goto-char doesn't stick Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:25:58 +0300 Message-ID: <8360fx2jm1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <03485ABD-CF71-4FF8-B887-ED7607341EBD@gnu.org> <83injx2uii.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497551210 8238 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 18:26:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 20:26:47 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZTa-0001Xy-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 20:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZTg-0005iL-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZTA-0005iC-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZT5-0002hZ-Hr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZT5-0002hV-EI; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3599 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dLZT4-0007cC-DB; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:26:07 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:11:13 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215646 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.