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From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: A little lisp help
Date: 27 Jan 2003 09:48:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lvg0a8x7z.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1fp9kxr.13sm7o11xgz8eiN%jjanney@xmission.com

> Markers are the most general solution, but you can sometimes get by
> without them by making changes in reverse buffer order.  For example, in
> this case
>     (goto-char p)
>     (insert "}\n")
>     (save-excursion (goto-char m) (insert "{\n"))
>     (indent-region m (point) nil))

Note that `save-excursion' uses a marker ;-)


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-27 14:48 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>
2003-01-24  7:39       ` Jim Janney
2003-01-27 14:48         ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
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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