GNU bug report logs - #8301
24.0.50; non-interactive `yank' in another buffer leaves point before insertion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 8301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8301 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8301: 24.0.50;
	non-interactive `yank' in another buffer leaves point beforeinsertion
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:29:26 -0400

> So maybe this does have something to do with `window-point' after
> all?  Dunno.

Yup.  It's the same old issue of the fact that a buffer displayed in
N windows has N+1 different `point's.  Every time a command finishes,
every buffer's `point' may get reinitialized from the `point' of one of
the windows displaying the buffer.


        Stefan
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