Re: Moving cursor on another window

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Uday S Reddy <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Martin and Stefan, Thanks for the responses.  I understand the
> point about window-point now.
>
> The reason for my asking the question is that I was trying to narrow
> down a possible bug in Emacs 23.2.92 pretest.  The same problem has
> also been mentioned with the recent revisions in the Emacs trunk
>
> The way the problem is exhibited in the VM mail reader is that the
> cursor in the Summary window doesn't move after moving to a different
> message.  This movement is done in a function called
> vm-set-summary-pointer which is called from different places in
> VM. Some of these calls work fine but others don't.  I was trying to
> narrow down the difference between the contexts, but I couldn't really
> find much difference.
>
> (vm-set-summary-pointer has the correct calls to set the window-point
> and I don't think anything is wrong with its code.  It has been
> working fine for ages.)
>
> On the surface, this seems similar to the problem mentioned by Thierry
> Volpato a couple of days ago.
I am actually using 23.2.92 with the changes on window.c made by Martin
and all work fine, maybe you can try also to apply these changes to see
if they fix your problem in VM.
Also, his patch, that is for Emacs24 now, work fine also.

> More details at the VM bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/703775
>
> Cheers,
> Uday
>
>
>

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