Re: [Emacs-diffs] master c711991: Allow not erase output buffer in shell commands

[Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I guess, in cases where the buffer is not displayed, (goto-char pos)
>> might not always work as `set-window-point': a posterior
>> display of the buffer maybe doesn't show point at pos.
>
> When a buffer is displayed in a window for the first time, the window's
> point is initialized from the buffer's point, so it should work for
> those cases.  If the goto-char happens for a buffer that used to be
> displayed in a window and later gets displayed again in that window, it
> may be the case that we remember the old window-point somewhere and try
> to return to that, indeed.  Let's not worry about it for now.
Ok.  thanks.
> Tho, maybe it would be a good idea to introduce a new function (not sure
> how to call it: window-goto-char?  set-buffer-window-point?) which would
> work like set-window-point but takes a buffer as argument.  After all,
> it's a fairly common need, and if we ever want to fix the corner case
> mentioned above, we could fix it there once and for all.
Thank you very much for the further explanation.  Let's see what other 
people here might comment about this new function proposal; people with 
deeper understanding than me in that topic.

> PS: Haven't checked the new patch, sorry.
Please take your time.  I took 1 month to answer this.  There is no hurry.