From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-excursion again Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40540.130.55.118.19.1276873485.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276874295 27455 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 15:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Uday S Reddy" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 17:18:14 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPdKZ-0005Ek-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:18:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPdKY-0002Iv-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53058 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPd7q-0000Ss-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPd7o-0007ZV-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint2.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.26]:49359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPd7o-0007Z2-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:04:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint2.lanl.gov (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5IFG1XO012813; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:16:02 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id B172E94361F; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:04:45 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7DA94361E; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:04:45 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id 9CEB21CA81E2; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:04:45 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from 130.55.118.19 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5_4.10.lanl1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2010-06-18_03:2010-02-06, 2010-06-18, 2010-06-18 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126171 Archived-At: > - 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 -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.