>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard>
Richard> It seems to me as if set-window-point and goto-char don't do
Richard> the same thing.
Richard>
Richard> This is right--they are not the same. set-window-point sets
Richard> the point value of the window you specify, whether or not
Richard> it is selected, and regardless of what buffer it is displaying.
Richard>
Richard> I thought this was clearly documented, but if you did not
Richard> find it clear enough, can you show me the specific places
Richard> in the manual which I should clarify?
I was trying to understand an odd behavior (under some, I have to admit,
rather obscure circumstances) in a buffer automatically created by Gnus,
that I could fix for me when I replaced set-window-point with goto-char
in a Gnus function.
And no the elisp docu looks good to me. I had only used describe-function
to see what set-window-point is doing.
BTW while reading the function's docu, I jumped to node "Positions" and
read about positions and markers. The 2nd paragraph contains:
"Functions that expect an argument to be a position (an integer), but accept a
marker as a substitute, normally ignore the marker buffer."
The meaning of this sentence isn't clear to me.
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