GNU bug report logs - #19161
24.4; vc-mode reload on commit - don't jump to start of buffer

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Reported by: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19380

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
Cc: "'19161 <at> debbugs.gnu.org'" <19161 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#19161: 24.4; vc-mode reload on commit - don't jump to start of buffer
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:09:56 -0500

Version:25.1

> Surely the simplest fix is to save the current point (as a line number
> and column number), revert the file, and then put point back to where
> it was?

I installed a similar change in "master".  It doesn't preserve
line-number nor column number, but it keeps the point in the same place
in proportion to the changed text.

> In the particular case of reverting after a version control checkin
> this would give more useful behaviour.  I wouldn't advocate it for
> ordinary revert-buffer operations.

I actually did it for all revert-buffer operations.


        Stefan
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