Re: goto-char doesn't stick

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:11:13 -0400
> 
> > You need to switch to "z" so that it is displayed in a window,
> > e.g. with "C-x b".  switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point does its
> > thing at that time.
> 
> Ah, so the OP wants to affect the future window-point?

Something like that, yeah.

> I don't think there's ever been a reliable way to do that

Right, I think it used to work only in very simple situations, and
definitely not when the same buffer is displayed at different
positions in several windows.