Re: Please explain to me what happens with the point!

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, May 27 2025, mbork@mbork.pl wrote:
> What is going on here?  I studied the manual chapter on "window point",
> but I can't understand why the point in my second example seemingly does
> not move, since the `*test*' buffer is never in the selected window.

IANAEE[1], but the way I understand it is that that's the case because the
window is visible. The manual says that "[...] deselecting a window sets
the window's value of point from that of the buffer." So the window point
of the window displaying `*test*` is set when you do `C-x o`, and (buffer)
point remains where window point is.

In the first part of your test, the `*test*` buffer is not displayed, so
there is no window point, so (buffer) point can move.

Joost


Footnotes:
[1]  I Am Not A Emacs Expert.

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