Re: How to move point in emms playlist?

Does the command emms-playlist-mode-center-current (bound to the c key by default) that teleports point to the currently playing track help?

On 12 July 2023 02:36:56 GMT+10:00, Tom via <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am always a little irritated that the currently playing track is not at point (I'm using hl-line-mode), so there are 2 highlighted lines, point and current track. I wanted to fix that with:
>
>  (defun tvd-emms-follow-playing-song()
>    (interactive)
>    (save-restriction
>      (when emms-playlist-selected-marker
>        (goto-char emms-playlist-selected-marker))))
>
>  (add-hook 'emms-playlist-selection-changed-hook 'tvd-emms-follow-playing-song 1)
>
>However, this doesn't work, point is not moved when a new song starts to play.
>
>When I execute the function manually, it works (I added a couple of print statements to the function, which are being executed every time the song changes). So, it's actually being executed by the hook, but the goto-char part doesn't have any effect.
>
>Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here?
>
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>Tom