From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (read (current-buffer)) returns an integer in a buffer full of text? Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:44:03 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1164303070.530993.199230@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164687383 24416 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2006 04:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 28 05:16:22 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 1GouOD-000451-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:16:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GouOD-0000ZN-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GouLO-0005tO-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GouLM-0005r3-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:13:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GouLM-0005qr-7q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:13:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GojcX-0005o8-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:46:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gojbn-00038n-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:45:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <1164303070.530993.199230@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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:39053 Archived-At: 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 must use set-buffer or save-excursion too. > > All AFAIK. -- Kevin