On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

Hi Robert,

On 05/17/2016 10:51 PM, Robert Weiner wrote:

One example of where this causes a problem is in xref-location-marker
of elisp-mode.el. Again, that is called simply to return the marker
but because it calls find-function-search-for-symbol, it can move
point and cause other problems.

Could you please describe a step-by-step scenario illustrating such problem? Preferably starting with 'emacs -Q'.

As of Emacs 25.0.94, I can no longer replicate the problem, so some updates must have fixed it. Great. Please close this issue.

If you ever need a test case for this, the following code should show the definition of outline-show-all in only the upper window but when the bug existed, both windows would be scrolled to its definition.

(progn

(delete-other-windows)

(find-library "outline")

(display-buffer-pop-up-window "outline.el.gz" nil)

(find-function-search-for-symbol 'outline-show-all nil "outline"))