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Restore window start position

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 12253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12253: Restore window start position
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:08:24 +0200

> Martin writes in bug#12230:
>
>>> +	  (set-window-start (selected-window) (nth 3 hist))))))
>> [...]
>>> +    (set-window-start (selected-window) ostart)))
>> [...]
>>> +    (set-window-start (selected-window) ostart)))
>> Are you sure you want to force start positions here?
[...]
> The second change in `Info-history-back' and in `Info-history-forward'
> is to keep the original window positions while navigating through
> the Info history backward and forward.  I think this has the same importance
> as keeping the original window positions while navigating buffers
> with `next-buffer' and `previous-buffer'.

I fully agree with you.  But I was curious whether setting the window
start position should be allowed to override any (goto-char opoint)
following or preceding it (just in case a window got resized during
navigation).

martin

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