From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (read (current-buffer)) returns an integer in a buffer full of text? Date: 28 Nov 2006 06:34:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1164724454.191296.147930@14g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <1164303070.530993.199230@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164725236 14507 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2006 14:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 28 15:47:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp4En-000533-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp4En-0006D6-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:47:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!14g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1164724460 11995 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2006 14:34:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:34:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 14g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143443 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39058 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Robert Thorpe wrote: > > Sebastian Tennant wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> If I execute the following code in *scratch* there's no problem: > >> > >> (with-temp-buffer > >> (insert "hello") > >> (backward-word) > >> (read (current-buffer))) > >> => hello > > > > The function with-temp-buffer creates a temp buffer for the duration of > > it's body. It does _not_ select that buffer as the current buffer. > > Why would that matter? The (read (current-buffer)) form is evaluated > while the temp buffer is current. Nothing depends on the temp buffer > still being current after that. You're right, my last sentence is 100% wrong. With-temp-buffer does set the temp buffer to be the current buffer. I have no idea why this code doesn't work, it works for me under similar conditions. (The only mistake is that (backward-word) should be (backward-word 1))