From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-excursion again
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:08:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtyofyy3j.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimAz58-5DiPyR7w7WKt16iodJyvDhUixKR_PAlP@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:54:09 +0200")
>>> I took Stephen's point as saying that, if we have separate
>>> save-current-buffer and save-region, with save-excursion strongly
>>> discouraged, we would promote a clearer programming style.
>> Probably. But then, for the same reasons, you'd also want to have
>> save-point since save-region is so rarely needed.
> So what is wrong with having those?
Nothing in itself. Tho, I don't see a particular need for it either.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-04 17:08 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 [this message]
2010-06-19 16:22 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 15:04 ` Davis Herring
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