To reproduce: - start a terminal emulator with M-x term - switch to other buffer - switch back to *terminal* buffer When switching back to the terminal buffer, the point position is not kept, but set to point-min. In GNU Emacs 25.1.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-09-17 built on kubuntu Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Configured using: 'configure --with-xwidgets' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XWIDGETS Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: nl_BE.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 86314 8240) (symbols 48 19667 0) (miscs 40 46 146) (strings 32 14237 4673) (string-bytes 1 410227) (vectors 16 11743) (vector-slots 8 430828 5967) (floats 8 165 51) (intervals 56 203 0) (buffers 976 19) (heap 1024 39254 1011))