[21.5-b17] current/set-window-configuration incompatibility

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun Apr 4 05:25:29 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Yoshiaki" == Yoshiaki Kasahara <kasahara at nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp> writes:

Yoshiaki> I noticed that current/set-window-configuration behaviour of current
Yoshiaki> 21.5-beta is not compatible with FSF Emacs nor older 21.5-beta (I
Yoshiaki> checked b5).  I didn't test 21.4.

I don't know about "compatible"---the implementation certainly is new,
and doesn't fulfill all the invariants of the old one.

Yoshiaki> It seems that current 21.5-beta remembers the cursor position (point)
Yoshiaki> of the current buffer with the configuration and restores it by
Yoshiaki> set-window-configuration.  The cursor is moved to an unexpected point
Yoshiaki> and sometimes it causes a problem with some software.

Can you provide a recipe for reproducing the problem?

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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