Re: Emacs recentres point in buffer if it is moved anywhere -- annoying!

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

David Vaughan <purpleblues13@gmail.com> writes:

> It seems that:
>
> (setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers nil)
>
> has fixed it. (Previously I was setting that to 't'.)

Yes, it's auto-reverting buffer-lists specifically that triggers this
bug.  You can auto-revert other types of non-file buffer safely AFAIK.

The following diff was sent by Nicolas Richard in June 2014 to
emacs-devel.  I don't know why this isn't fixed in Emacs 24.4.  That
said I haven't tried it, I've just disabled auto-reverting.

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list.el
index d0d71dd..dd1166f 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list.el
@@ -323,7 +323,9 @@ to the entry with the same ID element as the current line."
     (if saved-pt
 	(progn (goto-char saved-pt)
 	       (move-to-column saved-col)
-	       (recenter))
+	       (when (eq (window-buffer (selected-window))
+                         (current-buffer))
+                 (recenter)))
       (goto-char (point-min)))))
 
 (defun tabulated-list-print-entry (id cols)

BR,
Robert Thorpe