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: Setting point Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:32:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3hq4zl2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgdqubhe.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523651490 13430 195.159.176.226 (13 Apr 2018 20:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 22:31:26 2018 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 1f75Ly-0003Nq-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f75O4-0007iz-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f75N1-0007gq-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f75Mx-0004Sv-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57925) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f75Mx-0004Sd-0I; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3216 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f75Mw-0003VX-FA; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:32:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgdqubhe.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:56:13 +0200) 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:224562 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:56:13 +0200 > > If you're in an Emacs with *scratch* not displayed, this is a noop: > > (progn (set-buffer (get-buffer "*scratch*")) (goto-char (point-max))) > > When you switch to *scratch*, point will be wherever it used to be. > > I don't think Emacs has always behaved this way? It changed perhaps > 5-10 years ago? That's switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point in action.