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: goto-char doesn't stick Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:32:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8zh2ufb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <03485ABD-CF71-4FF8-B887-ED7607341EBD@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497537162 24987 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 14:32:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 16:32:39 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 1dLVp7-00068l-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVpC-0005Zh-KD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVp7-0005Zc-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVp3-0002y7-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVp3-0002xw-27; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2969 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVp1-0001zM-QV; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:32:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:37:01 -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:215643 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:37:01 -0400 > Cc: Emacs developers > > > Really? Why would set-buffer+goto-char be affected by a variable named > > switch-to-buffer-* ? > > The switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point affects point when you > switch to buffer "z" later. Right. > Maybe we should provide set-preserved-window-point? Or > set-user-visible-point which would set all of point, window-point, and > preserved window-point (although I'm not sure how to deal with the > multi-window case cleanly)? How would set-preserved-window-point set all of those variables, and at what time? And how will it be different from turning off switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point while switching to the offending buffer?