Re: pop-global-mark and info buffers

[T.V Raman]

I haven't pulled and rebuilt yet :-)Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
 > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
 > > Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:15:45 -0800
 > > 
 > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
 > > 
 > > Thinking more about this:
 > > 
 > > 1.As a long time Emacs user, I suspect I almost never set the mark in
 > > info buffers which is likely why I never got bitten by this.
 > > 
 > > 2. The mark ring -- both local and global mark rings are powerful
 > >    features but not very approachable to a new Emacs user, and this
 > >    specific bug likely will drive at least some of them away.
 > > 
 > >    3. The fix to the error message will help, but it may be possible to
 > >       do more for the user, e.g. if the marker is outside the narrowed
 > >       portion of a buffer, widen and then jump there? We could also
 > >       special case info so that we widen, jump and narrow to the node
 > >       containing the marker.
 > > 
 > >       4. If we dont do 3, perhaps we could in the least jump to the
 > >          buffer containing the mark, and change the error to a warning
 > >          message that tells the user to widen the visible portion of the
 > >          buffer and then tell him how to jump there after widening 
 > 
 > There's a variable widen-automatically, did you try to use it?

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