From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CC mode 5.31.4: c-{beginning, end}-of-defun try to modify buffer
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4783F222.7030800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4783ED5A.4090803@gmx.at>
martin rudalics wrote:
>> There is a macro in font-lock.el called save-buffer-state that font
>> lock uses when it changes the text properties. Unfortunately that
>> macro is not available for anyone else to use since it is in an
>> eval-when-compile. Maybe that macro should be made available outside
>> of font-lock.el -- for changing text properties?
>
> Apparently people don't want it, see:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-08/msg00068.html
You mean because no one has responded to your request?
I believe I too have made the same request before, but with no response.
If used properly I see no disadvantages with the save-buffer-state macro
-- but otherwise it is of course dangerous.
However I do not know the actual reason that it is not made available.
Could someone please explain?
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[not found] <jed4sci6kb.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
2008-01-08 20:03 ` CC mode 5.31.4: c-{beginning, end}-of-defun try to modify buffer Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-08 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-08 20:17 ` martin rudalics
2008-01-08 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-08 21:38 ` martin rudalics
2008-01-08 21:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-08 22:39 ` martin rudalics
2008-01-08 22:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-09 9:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-09 9:16 ` martin rudalics
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