Re: question about buffer mechanism

[akrl <akrl@sdf.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The "current buffer" can be *any* buffer; it's a global variable that
> refers to one of the buffers and that variable can be changed with
> `set-buffer`.  Despite appearances, it is not directly related to which
> buffer is displayed on screen.
>
> org-open-at-point changes the buffer displayed on screen, but it happens
> to do so while preserving the "current buffer", so when the function
> returns, the current buffer is still the buffer in which you found the
> link rather than the new buffer that is now displayed in its place.
>
> As soon as the current *command* ends, the current buffer will be re-set
> by the command loop to point to the buffer of the currently selected
> window, i.e. the buffer which the user thinks of as "current" (in this
> case, the new buffer containing the target of the link).
>
>
>         Stefan

Hi Stefan,
thanks this really helped me to understand how it works and to solve my
problem.

Bests
  Andrea
  
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