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dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#27243: another case: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:41:32 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, rudalics <at> gmx.at, antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com,
>         27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:16:00 -0400
> 
> > Doesn't this already happen, and will continue happening after the
> > proposed change?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I was just pointing out that it's not quite true that "anything else
> would be an inconsistency".

AFAIU, Martin was answering my question:

> Are you saying this isn't more likely to happen than with
> switch-to-buffer itself?

IOW, the inconsistency would happen if the current behavior would
change when switch-to-buffer is replaced with
pop-to-buffer-same-window, not if find-file displayed in another
window.

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