GNU bug report logs - #5749
append-to-buffer and point

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Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 5749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 5749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: bug#5749: 24.0.50; Gomoku startup latency
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:27:26 -0400

>>> This is due to a behavioral change of `append-to-buffer', which used
>>> to preserve the point when the first argument coincides with the
>>> current buffer.
>> This change doesn't seem to be documented in NEWS, was it intentional?
> I suspect this was done as part of Stefan's mass conversion of code to
> with-current-buffer.

Indeed.  Note that the new behavior happens to be more correct w.r.t its
docstring:

   It is inserted into that buffer before its point.

so it promises to move point in the specified buffer.  At first
I thought we should fix append-to-buffer to behave as it used to, but
now I'm wondering whether we should fix the uses instead.



        Stefan
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 56 days ago.

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