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From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: goto-char doesn't stick
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:02:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0W+iO3yQQ0FGCN8aCKJRLXMF=ehFqjXsZNQ60brsCfODqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmo9tqj3w4.fsf@suse.de>

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On 14 June 2017 at 17:48, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> On Jun 14 2017, Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Assuming the cursor is at some random position in buffer "z", The SLIME
> > code essentially does the following to move the cursor to a given
> location:
> >
> >     (progn
> >       (set-buffer "z")
> >       (goto-char LOCATION))
>
> You should put that inside save-excursion.
>

How will that help? I want the code to move point, and the problem is that
it does not move. ‘save-excursion’ simply ensures that point will not move.

Regards,
Elias

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-14 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-14  9:45 goto-char doesn't stick Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14  9:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-14 10:02   ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2017-06-14 10:29     ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-14 10:32       ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 11:01         ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]           ` <CADtN0WJdwdFhTL2_=ZQbADKT0p+PKCJKfkjqt7hNdQduq5bmCQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-14 11:09             ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 10:22 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2017-06-14 10:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-14 10:30   ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-14 11:16   ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 14:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-14 14:59       ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-14 15:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15  3:53         ` Alex
2017-06-14 14:05   ` Drew Adams
2017-06-14 14:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15  6:59   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 11:37     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-15 12:55       ` martin rudalics
2017-06-15 13:24       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 14:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 17:11           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 18:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 19:10               ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-06-15 19:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-15 22:51               ` martin rudalics
2017-06-16  2:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-15 14:32       ` Eli Zaretskii

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