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

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27243: closed (Re: bug#27243: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:28:59 +0200

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:59:07 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:

>> 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.

Thanks for the advice.

Steve Berman

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