Re: find-alternate-file should keep cursor position

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 01 Sep 2001 02:17:11 +0800
> 
> I forgot that I originally had started reading a file in view-mode, so
> after I positioned the cursor and started entering characters, only
> then did i discover I was in view-mode.  Fortunately there is C-x C-v,
> which even prompts with the name of the current file, how
> convenient.  What's not convenient is that C-x C-v puts me at the top
> of the reread file instead of putting me where I was.  Indeed, I think
> any record of where I was is now gone from anywhere in emacs.

There are commands in view-mode to do that: type `e' or `E'.