GNU bug report logs - #33458
27.0.50; dired loses position when reverted from outside place

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Message #80 received at 33458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: v88m <at> posteo.net
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,
 33458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33458: 27.0.50;
 dired loses position when reverted from outside place
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:33:31 +0200

>> Setting switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point to nil really helps,
>> but only in the case of switching buffers with 'C-x b'.  It doesn't
>> help when the buffer is displayed with any other command such as
>> 'C-x <C-left>' (previous-buffer) or with set-window-configuration
>> or window-state-put, etc.
>
> According to documentation in some cases this variable is ignored. It
> seems we faced those.

Thanks for the reference to switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point.
I see that we have to add more ignored cases: pop-to-buffer-same-window.

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