From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Buffer created but why movement command of function ignored? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87mw4l2uqd.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423612168 31166 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2015 23:49:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:49:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 11 00:49:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYT-0003l5-6N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYS-0000zL-Gz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYH-0000yv-IB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYE-0006ln-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYE-0006li-5Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:49:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKYC-0003e4-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-208-145.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.208.145]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-208-145.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:49:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-208-145.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+FSnE6gS3H9l3ZOAvlOpHlytbB0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102625 Archived-At: Chris Seberino writes: > When I run this function the ansi-term is created but the point > does NOT move to beginning of buffer. Why? > > (global-set-key (kbd "M-l") (lambda () (interactive) > (ansi-term "ls") > (beginning-of-buffer))) That's expected. It's because the output comes from an asynchronous process and arrives after your function has long given back control to the command loop. When your (beginning-of-buffer) is evaluated, the buffer is there but still empty. That's why such things are typically done in a process sentinel. Michael.