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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 16:12:12 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>         antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com, 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:02:58 -0400
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> Actually, when I do C-x C-f from a minibuffer-only frame it would be
> wrong to display the file in that (mini) window, so there are
> circumstances where it makes perfect sense for find-file to display the
> file in another window.

Doesn't this already happen, and will continue happening after the
proposed change?

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