From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60080 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: gnus-carpal-mode and mouse-autoselect-window Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:18:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112596283 16971 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2005 06:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8607@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 04 08:31:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIL7E-0006Fm-7A for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:31:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DIKvm-0002yo-00; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DIKve-0002yg-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DIKvd-0001jF-BX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DIKvc-0000XL-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:19:16 +0200 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DIKuy-0001pj-5G; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:18:36 -0400 Original-To: Klaus Zeitler In-reply-to: (message from Klaus Zeitler on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:01:23 +0200) X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60080 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:6758 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60080 It seems to me as if set-window-point and goto-char don't do the same thing. set-window-point basically executes the following statements: --- snip --- if (w == XWINDOW (selected_window) && XBUFFER (w->buffer) == current_buffer) Fgoto_char (pos); else set_marker_restricted (w->pointm, pos, w->buffer); --- snip --- This is right--they are not the same. set-window-point sets the point value of the window you specify, whether or not it is selected, and regardless of what buffer it is displaying. I thought this was clearly documented, but if you did not find it clear enough, can you show me the specific places in the manual which I should clarify?