Re: compilation-scroll-output broken

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     what was the motivation for this change?
>
>     2004-01-03  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>
>
>           * progmodes/compile.el (compile-internal): Use point, not point-min,
>           for set-window-point.
>
> It fixed a bug where the actual output was not visible
> because it was inserted in the buffer before the window start.
> This occurred when the buffer was already displayed in another window.

Do you have a simple way to reproduce?  I can't remember having seen this
problem myself, and ignoring compilation-scroll-output looks like the more
serious bug.

Andreas.

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