Re: exiting summary buffer does not move cursor in group buffer any

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> After experimentation, I have narrowed down the seeming cause of this
>> problem: This happens if the group buffer is visible when exiting the
>> summary buffer.

> Good catch, this is caused by the following change:

> 2004-11-22  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

> 	* gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-exit): Remove redundant and harmful
> 	pop-to-buffer, covered by the subsequent gnus-configure-windows.

> When the group buffer is already visible the value of point in the
> buffer is now reset to the window's value when we reselect it; before
> this change we called pop-to-buffer which displayed the group buffer in
> the selected window (the one displaying the summary buffer) and ensured
> that the move was taken into account...

> I don't remember why Stefan made that change and why pop-to-buffer was
> harmful here... let's CC him.

When pop-to-frame is non-nil and the *Group* buffer is not visible,
pop-to-buffer creates a new frame and takes the careful window management
off-guard.

Does the patch below solve the problem?


        Stefan


--- gnus-sum.el	04 jan 2005 14:46:56 -0500	1.56
+++ gnus-sum.el	29 jan 2005 17:31:08 -0500	
@@ -6680,9 +6680,9 @@
       (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer)
       (if quit-config
 	  (gnus-handle-ephemeral-exit quit-config)
-	(goto-char group-point)
 	(unless leave-hidden
-	  (gnus-configure-windows 'group 'force)))
+	  (gnus-configure-windows 'group 'force))
+	(goto-char group-point))
       ;; Clear the current group name.
       (unless quit-config
 	(setq gnus-newsgroup-name nil)))))