From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: A little lisp help
Date: 22 Jan 2003 18:02:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5liswgaiut.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2lm1cu75l.fsf@bluesteel.grierwhite.com
> Use markers if you really want to be able to move around
> and insert text, but the best method was the previous
> suggestion to narrow-to-region.
Be careful with narrow-to-region, though, because it hides the
rest of the text which can prevent things from working correctly.
A good example would be indentation: don't call indent-region
from within narrowing because it might not do the right thing.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 19:06 A little lisp help Peter Lee
2003-01-21 19:24 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-01-21 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-21 20:32 ` Peter Lee
2003-01-21 20:41 ` Barry Margolin
2003-01-21 21:52 ` Peter Lee
2003-01-21 22:34 ` Peter Lee
2003-01-22 22:55 ` Christopher J. White
2003-01-22 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2003-01-24 7:39 ` Jim Janney
2003-01-27 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-22 8:24 ` Kai Großjohann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-24 16:51 Bingham, Jay
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