Subject: bug#23567: find-function-search-for-symbol of find-func.el leaves point moved but should not

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 02:47:48 +0300

Hi Robert,

On 05/17/2016 10:51 PM, Robert Weiner wrote:

> One example of where this causes a problem is in xref-location-marker
> of elisp-mode.el.  Again, that is called simply to return the marker
> but because it calls find-function-search-for-symbol, it can move
> point and cause other problems.

Could you please describe a step-by-step scenario illustrating such 
problem? Preferably starting with 'emacs -Q'.