* src/window.c (Fmove_to_window_line): Avoid abort when called in a buffer

different from selected-window's.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index f61b2786461..3478a0cb653 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-12-26  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        * window.c (Fmove_to_window_line): Avoid abort when called in a buffer
+        different from selected-window's.
+
 2010-12-25  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * keyboard.c (parse_menu_item): Prepend "  " to the key sequence
diff --git a/src/window.c b/src/window.c
index f9a2d31b4fe..1c50e997684 100644
--- a/src/window.c
+++ b/src/window.c
@@ -5856,6 +5856,12 @@ zero means top of window, negative means relative to bottom of window.  */)
   int this_scroll_margin;
 #endif
 
+  if (!(BUFFERP (w->buffer)
+        && XBUFFER (w->buffer) == current_buffer))
+    /* This test is needed to make sure PT/PT_BYTE make sense in w->buffer
+       when passed below to set_marker_both.  */
+    error ("move-to-window-line called from unrelated buffer");
+  
   window = selected_window;
   start = marker_position (w->start);
   if (start < BEGV || start > ZV)