[Mac-emacs-users] Re: IGNORE: read-from-minibuffer loses point if same buffer open twice

[Steven T. <ste...@ma...>]

Sorry about the spam.  I haven't updated my CVS repository.  RMS checked 
in a fix last saturday to window.c.

Ignore me....

-Steven

On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 08:24  AM, Steven Tamm wrote:

> This could just be an emacs problem or a behavior change between emacs 
> 20 and 21.
>
> I'm finding with 21.3.50 that if I have the same buffer open in two 
> different windows, when I try a query-replace in the window I opened 
> second, after it accepts the match-string, it immediately sends the 
> point of the second window to the point of the first.  So, if I have 
> the file "foo.txt" open in two windows in the same frame, the first one 
> has the point half way down, the second one has it at the top.  In the 
> second window I try to query replace and after I put in "baz" the point 
> in the second window jumps down to the middle before it asks for the 
> replace string.
>
> I've traced the problem with the function (read-from-minibuffer) in 
> minibuf.c.  It appears that when it reads the minibuffer input, it 
> seems to forget which window was active.  It seems to happen under all 
> sorts of other conditions.
> Has anyone else run into this problem?
>
> -Steven
>
>
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