From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Consider turning on preserving window point Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 22:49:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83zirl96al.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160519185838.GA16418@holos.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1463687449 24777 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2016 19:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 21:50:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b3Txz-000755-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2016 21:50:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b3Txy-0004ZO-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2016 15:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b3TxM-0004Ys-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2016 15:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b3TxG-0004Vz-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2016 15:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b3TxG-0004Vl-Rx; Thu, 19 May 2016 15:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2054 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b3Tx9-0004tm-SF; Thu, 19 May 2016 15:49:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160519185838.GA16418@holos.localdomain> (message from Mark Oteiza on Thu, 19 May 2016 14:58:38 -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:203891 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 14:58:38 -0400 > From: Mark Oteiza > > This is an old bug for changes done in 23 that broke the behaviour of > keeping window point the same in buffers. > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4041 > > It had been suggested to be enabled in subsequent releases, but this > never happened. AFAICT there has been virtually no mention on this list > of switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point, and no bugs regarding it > since then. It appears to have been mentioned in Bug#16692. FWIW, I have switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point set to t since about forever.