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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, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#27243: another case: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to
 beginning of buffer
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:49:44 +0200

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:09:50 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:

>> I don't think I'm bothered by quitting.
>
> The different quitting behavior was what made the test case fail so I
> mentioned it.
>
>> I'm bothered by some feature
>> calling find-file that could somehow find the file shown in a window
>> different from the one where the command was invoked.  Are you saying
>> this isn't more likely to happen than with switch-to-buffer itself?
>
> Yes.  Anything else would be an inconsistency we would have to fix.
>
>> If so, we can indeed modify find-file to use
>> pop-to-buffer-same-window.
>
> Modulo the fact that Stefan always wanted and probably still wants to
> get rid of functions like ‘find-file-other-window’ and
> ‘find-file-other-frame’ and move their functionality to ‘find-file’ and
> I still don't know how to do that and probably never will.

Are we waiting for feedback from Stefan (cc'd just in case)?  Or should
I go ahead and push the fix?

Steve Berman

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