Starting from emacs -Q:
Create a new buffer named "a". Insert ten asterisks and move point to
the beginning of the buffer.
Split the window and select the scratch buffer in one of them, leaving
buffer "a" visible in the other. In the scratch buffer, evaluate this
Lisp _expression_:
(with-current-buffer "a" (goto-char 5) (insert "foo"))
You can see "foo" inserted at position 5 in buffer "a", but point
remains at the beginning of the buffer.
Go to buffer "a", delete the "foo", and move to the beginning of the
buffer again. Go to the scratch buffer and make it the sole visible
window. Evaluate the above Lisp _expression_ again. Go to buffer "a".
"foo" has been inserted at position 5 as before, but now point is at
position 8, after the "foo".
I would expect point to move to position 8 in both cases, and I don't
see anything in the documentation for with-current-buffer or goto-char
to suggest that it ever wouldn't.
In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2019-04-19 built on SeanMc
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
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