Re: Problems with compile-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    > I have no idea what select-window does, but protecting it with 
save-excursion
    > does the trick.  I didn't change the calling function, so either something
    > else changed, or the bug was always there.

    Now, setting compilation-scroll-output to nil has no effect. The
    window always scrolls as text is added to the compilation buffer.

In the past, I've observed problems like this to result
from the strange things that happen when a buffer is displayed
in a window that isn't selected.  The window has its value
of point, and the buffer has its value, and the values get transferred
at specific times.

I'm not saying that is the cause here, but it is worth thinking about.