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bug#45052: 27.1; GDB completion moves point
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#45052: 27.1; GDB completion moves point |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:01:52 +0200 |
> Cc: 45052@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 16:21:15 +0100
>
> > Martin, do we have any way of preventing the original problem via
> > display-buffer actions, per chance? I couldn't find anything to that
> > effect, FWIW.
>
> There is `set-window-buffer-start-and-point' for this purpose but it is
> not used by `display-buffer'.
OK, thanks.
> I'm afraid that with these new completion frameworks proliferating
> we may have to check our sources for more incarnations of
> `set-window-start/-point' couplings that do not set NOFORCE.
Maybe we should teach these functions to set the optional_new_start
flag of the window, not only the force_start, given some special value
of NOFORCE. That'd be the next thing I'd try if Philip (or someone
else) reports some adverse effects from the simplistic change I
proposed.