bug#27243: closed (Re: bug#27243: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer)

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:59:07 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

>> Wow, that's disastrous!  And frightening: I use the "(set-window-buffer
>> (selected-window) (set-buffer ...))" idiom a lot in todo-mode.el; I just
>> checked two commands using `C-h f' followed by the command invocation:
>> one worked fine but the other caused the same disaster.  So now I have
>> to check all uses :(.  Is there a general guideline for when to use
>> set-window-buffer and when to use pop-to-buffer-same-window?
>
> Always try ‘pop-to-buffer-same-window’ or ‘display-buffer-same-window’
> first.  If they fail, try to find out why.  Maybe that can be fixed.

Thanks for the advice.

Steve Berman