From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Bastian Beischer <bastian.beischer@gmail.com>
Cc: bug#28645 <28645@debbugs.gnu.org>, Brief Busters <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#28645: Status: 26.0.50; semantic-ia-fast-jump jumps to a random place in buffer
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:09:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59D5E8D6.7020907@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK9AuB_wzJpsOqWfUBBQF1wB=fM9aVyXt7NSjNcBr0md1u0KSw@mail.gmail.com>
> I understand. Then this must mean that the change in behavior in CEDET
> was triggered with this commit:
>
> commit ee297210cffb9e8d05912686a39fa158414ba050
> Author: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
> Date: Thu May 26 21:47:18 2016 -0400
Right.
> I also understand your other arguments. But the question is: While
> your recommendation makes sense, there clearly still is a lot of code
> which uses switch-to-buffer without binding
> switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point to nil and it wasn't fixed when
> this variable's default was changed. This is true in lisp code shipped
> in emacs and it is probably also true for lots of third party code in
> the wild. Who is going to fix all this code? And if it turns out that
> the fixing all this code is too difficult / impossible, is it
> justified to fix bug #4041 at the cost of causing numerous other bugs
> (which arguably are due to misuse of switch-to-buffer, but they will
> have to be fixed either way)?
This would have the banal consequence that all users who then set
‘switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point’ to a non-nil value would have
to live with the wrong behavior forever: Nobody would care about fixing
it because "the default" DTRT already.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-05 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-29 13:23 bug#28645: 26.0.50; semantic-ia-fast-jump jumps to a random place in buffer Constantine
2017-09-29 14:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-29 14:57 ` Constantine
2017-09-29 18:18 ` martin rudalics
2017-09-30 14:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-03 9:40 ` bug#28645: Status: " Bastian Beischer
2017-10-04 9:03 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-04 11:11 ` Bastian Beischer
2017-10-05 8:09 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2017-10-15 23:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-16 10:21 ` Bastian Beischer
2017-10-17 8:58 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-17 10:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-17 12:30 ` Bastian Beischer
2017-10-18 23:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-19 9:41 ` Bastian Beischer
2017-10-19 10:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
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