Re: Moving cursor on another window

[Uday S Reddy]

Dear Martin and Stefan, Thanks for the responses.  I understand the 
point about window-point now.

The reason for my asking the question is that I was trying to narrow 
down a possible bug in Emacs 23.2.92 pretest.  The same problem has also 
been mentioned with the recent revisions in the Emacs trunk

The way the problem is exhibited in the VM mail reader is that the 
cursor in the Summary window doesn't move after moving to a different 
message.  This movement is done in a function called 
vm-set-summary-pointer which is called from different places in VM. 
Some of these calls work fine but others don't.  I was trying to narrow 
down the difference between the contexts, but I couldn't really find 
much difference.

(vm-set-summary-pointer has the correct calls to set the window-point 
and I don't think anything is wrong with its code.  It has been working 
fine for ages.)

On the surface, this seems similar to the problem mentioned by Thierry 
Volpato a couple of days ago.

More details at the VM bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/703775

Cheers,
Uday