GNU bug report logs - #18545
24.4.50: Bug - forward-line inside with-selected-window

Previous Next

Full log

Message #104 received at 18545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: lompik <at> voila.fr, 18545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18545: 24.4.50: Bug - forward-line inside with-selected-window
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:03:30 +0200

> You assume that the value of point displayed is consistent with the one
> you see on the screen.  But maybe the value of point printed is the one
> of the line *after* the last line.  So after printing that value,
> redisplay re-sets point and at the end of the next command, the
> displayed point will be the same as the last displayed one.

Indeed.  Redisplay moves point back exactly to where it was before.

martin

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.