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gnus-tree-hightlight-article moves point in summary buffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Cc: 13769 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13769: gnus-tree-hightlight-article moves point in summary buffer
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 18:17:01 +0200

Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:

> This bug affects gnus-summary-mark-forward; the point moves backward in
> the summary buffer quite perplexingly.  The following patch seems to
> suppress the symptoms of the bug:

[...]

>  (defun gnus-tree-highlight-article (article face)
> +  (save-excursion
>    (with-current-buffer (gnus-get-tree-buffer)
>      (let (region)
>        (when (setq region (gnus-tree-article-region article))
>  	(gnus-put-text-property (car region) (cdr region) 'face face)
>  	(set-window-point
>  	 (gnus-get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t) (cdr region))))))
> +  )

Hm.  I don't quite understand this patch.  `save-excursion' saves the
point in the current buffer, and what the current buffer is.  The bit
inside the save-excursion all happens in a different buffer, so point in
the current buffer shouldn't change at all.

Does anybody have any ideas why this patch would help?  It could be some
magic connected to `set-window-point', I guess...

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