[climacs-devel] Re: Point - buffer or pane?

[Robert Strandh]

Aleksandar Bakic writes:
 > I can commit this patch as soon as you and Robert agree that the following
 > scenario does not cause a problem:
 > 
 > Suppose you have two panes and two buffers (e.g., *scratch* and foo). If you
 > keep switching between the two buffers in both panes, you will notice that you
 > can't really keep two independent points to the same buffer. Instead, the point
 > that was last saved into buffer, when the buffer was buried in one pane, ends
 > up in the other pane when the same buffer is unburied in that other pane.

That's OK.  Emacs does not do better than this either. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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