From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: save-current-buffer Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:31:23 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224412633.113476@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <1224362986.875430@arno.fh-trier.de> <0oCdnWtUBfnQ8GfVnZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224483948 16610 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 06:25:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:25:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 08:26:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KrVjg-0007QG-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrVib-000707-G1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:41:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224412655 6575 143.93.54.11 (19 Oct 2008 10:37:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:37:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-194-214.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163583 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:58932 Archived-At: Glauber Alex Dias Prado wrote: > save-current-buffer is a special form in `C source code'. > (save-current-buffer &rest body) > > Save the current buffer; execute body; restore the current buffer. > Executes body just like `progn'. > > strange indeed,dunno why it works this way. > > "B. T. Raven" writes: > >> Andreas Politz wrote: >>> >>> Is this a bug, or am I missing something ? >>> Eval this in *scratch* buffer and you end up in the *Help* one. >>> >>> (save-current-buffer >>> (switch-to-buffer "*Help*")) >>> >>> >>> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 >>> >>> >>> -ap What would make sense is if `current buffer' refers to whatever (current-buffer) returns, and switch-to-buffer changes that. ? -ap