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From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Uday S Reddy" <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-excursion again
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40540.130.55.118.19.1276873485.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hvf81d$ld2$1@dough.gmane.org>

> - if the code X has no possibility of getting back to the buffer A and
> moving point, then save-excursion can be replaced by
> save-current-buffer (and the byte compiler gives you a brownie point).

Be careful: you might not "get back" to buffer A and yet be in it if (eq A
B).

Davis

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-18  7:42 save-excursion again Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-18 14:02   ` David Kastrup
2010-06-18 15:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-18 17:16   ` Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 18:37     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-19 14:50     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-19 14:56       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-19 14:58         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-19 17:23           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-19 17:30             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-25 21:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-26  0:40               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-01  0:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-01  4:34                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-04 17:07                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-26 11:03               ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-01  0:30                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-01  1:54                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-04 17:08                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-19 16:22       ` Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 15:04 ` Davis Herring [this message]

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