From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Set-window-point in append-to-buffer
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:19:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8y1n2yu.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOxkcC6+ZM+gF502H9Fj4UAonsk2ZSPM-JkW0MtA9+65B9i6Kw@mail.gmail.com
Steve Schooler <sgschooler@gmail.com> writes:
> The append-to-buffer function's definition ends with:
>
> (dolist (window windows)
> (when (= (window-point window) point)
> (set-window-point window (point))))))))
>
> What is the purpose of this?
AFAICT the purpose is to make what the doc of `append-to-buffer' says:
"Append to specified buffer the text of the region.
It is inserted into that buffer before its point."
valid for the window points of all windows displaying the target buffer.
> Experimenting, I commented out this code and re-ran, but could detect
> no difference in functionality?
Try again with this snipped for example:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(let ((buffer-to-modify (get-buffer-create "Test"))
(buffer-with-text (get-buffer-create "Text")))
(with-current-buffer buffer-to-modify (erase-buffer))
(switch-to-buffer buffer-with-text)
(erase-buffer)
(insert "TextText")
(display-buffer-pop-up-window buffer-to-modify '())
(append-to-buffer buffer-to-modify (point-min) (point-max)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Michael.
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2015-04-20 23:25 Set-window-point in append-to-buffer Steve Schooler
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