bug#31751: 26.1; Window-point inflicts bookmark-jump

bug#31751: 26.1; Window-point inflicts bookmark-jump

[Dmitri Paduchikh]

Hi,

In 26.1 switch-to-buffer by default prefers window-point. buffer-jump by
default uses switch-to-buffer and therefore also prefers window-point to
bookmark position which is wrong. The solution is suggested in NEWS:

> ** 'switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' now defaults to t.
> Applications that call 'switch-to-buffer' and want to show the buffer at
> the position of its point should use 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' in lieu
> of 'switch-to-buffer'.

Recipe to reproduce: open a file, set bookmark, move point to some other
position, switch to some other buffer, and jump to the set bookmark.

Best wishes.
Dmitri Paduchikh

In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
 of 2018-05-29 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12000000

bug#31751: 26.1; Window-point inflicts bookmark-jump

[Noam Postavsky]

tags 31751 fixed
close 31751 26.2
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Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com> writes:

> In 26.1 switch-to-buffer by default prefers window-point. buffer-jump by
> default uses switch-to-buffer and therefore also prefers window-point to
> bookmark position which is wrong. The solution is suggested in NEWS:
>
>> ** 'switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point' now defaults to t.
>> Applications that call 'switch-to-buffer' and want to show the buffer at
>> the position of its point should use 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' in lieu
>> of 'switch-to-buffer'.
>
> Recipe to reproduce: open a file, set bookmark, move point to some other
> position, switch to some other buffer, and jump to the set bookmark.

I changed it to use pop-to-buffer-same-window as suggested in NEWS.

[1: f64c2774e9]: 2018-07-23 22:07:14 -0400
  Let bookmark-jump override window-point (Bug#31751)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f64c2774e96c755a5fddcbc49db65dcc3fcb9323