From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: goto-char doesn't stick Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <03485ABD-CF71-4FF8-B887-ED7607341EBD@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497509996 14087 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 06:59:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:59:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 08:59:53 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 1dLOky-0003SP-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOl3-0006LS-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOkX-0006LB-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOkU-0004qu-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34631 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOkU-0004qq-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOkM-0001fj-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:59:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ENTxcBjsNcjAmg/MM39f1ofzhmk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:215631 Archived-At: >> (progn >> (set-buffer "z") >> (goto-char LOCATION)) [...] > It's a feature, new in Emacs 26. If you don't like it, turn off > switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point. Really? Why would set-buffer+goto-char be affected by a variable named switch-to-buffer-* ? To me it sounds like Noam is right: Elias just needs to set-window-point instead of goto-char (or additionally to, if he needs goto-char for some other reason). Stefan