bug#27243: closed (Re: bug#27243: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer)

[martin rudalics]

> Wow, that's disastrous!  And frightening: I use the "(set-window-buffer
> (selected-window) (set-buffer ...))" idiom a lot in todo-mode.el; I just
> checked two commands using `C-h f' followed by the command invocation:
> one worked fine but the other caused the same disaster.  So now I have
> to check all uses :(.  Is there a general guideline for when to use
> set-window-buffer and when to use pop-to-buffer-same-window?

Always try ‘pop-to-buffer-same-window’ or ‘display-buffer-same-window’
first.  If they fail, try to find out why.  Maybe that can be fixed.

martin