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

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Message #52 received at 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27243: closed (Re: bug#27243: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps
 point to beginning of buffer)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:59:07 +0200

> Wow, that's disastrous!  And frightening: I use the "(set-window-buffer
> (selected-window) (set-buffer ...))" idiom a lot in todo-mode.el; I just
> checked two commands using `C-h f' followed by the command invocation:
> one worked fine but the other caused the same disaster.  So now I have
> to check all uses :(.  Is there a general guideline for when to use
> set-window-buffer and when to use pop-to-buffer-same-window?

Always try ‘pop-to-buffer-same-window’ or ‘display-buffer-same-window’
first.  If they fail, try to find out why.  Maybe that can be fixed.

martin

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