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From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nesting of unwind-protect and atomic-change-group
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:54:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18340.44603.70866.6745@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JLCyK-0006p2-0S@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Sat Feb 2 2008 Richard Stallman wrote:
>     When combining unwind-protect and atomic-change-group I found that
>     putting unwind-protect outermost worked for me (i.e., an unwindform
>     moving point to the buffer location where the error occured was
>     obeyed), whereas doing it the other way round didn't work for me
>     (the unwindform was ignored). 
> 
> An unwind-protect will _work_ either inside or outside
> of atomic-change-group.  Whatever problem you encountered
> must be more specific.  I can't guess what it might be.

Thanks for clarifying this. My real-world example based on
bibtex-entry-format is too complicated as a test case. I'll boil it
down to something more amenable.

Roland




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-02 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01 16:48 nesting of unwind-protect and atomic-change-group Roland Winkler
2008-02-02  7:39 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-02 17:54   ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2008-02-03 22:53   ` Roland Winkler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6908.1202079211.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-04 15:21     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6883.1201974855.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-04 15:23     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.6846.1201884554.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-02  4:31 ` Stefan Monnier

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