From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: hans-dieter.wilhelm@siemens.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: goto-char with set-buffer operations take only effect when buffer is not visible!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:57:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lklfd9q9.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ix0pwjt.fsf@gmx.at> (Markus Triska's message of "Sat\, 09 Dec 2006 22\:51\:50 +0100")
Markus Triska <triska@gmx.at> writes:
> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>>
>> (let ((cb (buffer-name)))
>> (set-buffer "*Ansys*") ;make buffer scroll with output
>> (goto-char (point-max))
>> (set-buffer cb))
>
> Using with-current-buffer, this becomes:
>
> (with-current-buffer "*Ansys*" (goto-char (point-max)))
Ahhh, with-current-buffer it's far more elegant.
>
>> To my astonishment this works only when the buffer *Ansys* is not
>> visible! When the buffer is visible and I call this snippet in
>> another one the cursor in *Ansys* won't budge a single character.
>
> Add:
>
> (walk-windows (lambda (w)
> (when (string= (buffer-name (window-buffer w)) "*Ansys*")
> (with-selected-window w (goto-char (point-max))))))
>
Great! Thank you for the template, I'll implement it in this way.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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2006-12-09 21:51 ` goto-char with set-buffer operations take only effect when buffer is not visible! Markus Triska
2006-12-10 15:57 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2006-12-10 14:01 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-12-10 15:52 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-09 19:32 Dieter Wilhelm
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