Re: [O] org-map-entries moves point

[Nick Dokos]

Florian Beck <address@hidden> writes:

> When I call org-map-entries with scope set to 'tree, the current
> heading gets realigned to the top.
>
> Behold:
>
> (org-map-entries (lambda ()
>                  ;; do something or even nothing
>                  ) nil 'tree)
>
> I think the culprit is the call to `org-agenda-prepare-buffers', or
> rather commit fe3379bda6ca23474639b114592958bf14431c88, which replaces
> save-excursion with save-window-excursion.
>
> What's interesting: This does NOT restore the window
> configuration. When I replace save-window-excursion with
> save-excursion the window configuration is restored again.
>
> I'm not sure *why* this happens.

John Kitchin reported this last week and Bastien reverted that commit:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/81587

But it's not clear *why* that commit was done in the first place so if
you get some enlightenment from your experiments, please share.

Nick