From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: need double save-excursion -- why?
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:41:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzf5f72n.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.627.1072391527.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> I don't get good results: the outermost save-excursion is ignored,
> and the cursor winds up near the bottom of the document.
You problem could be:
> (beginning-of-buffer) ;; start at the beginning
,----[ C-h f beginning-of-buffer RET ]
| Don't use this command in Lisp programs!
| (goto-char (point-min)) is faster and avoids clobbering the mark.
`----
> (end-of-buffer))))))
,----[ C-h f end-of-buffer RET ]
| Don't use this command in Lisp programs!
| (goto-char (point-max)) is faster and avoids clobbering the mark.
`----
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2003-12-25 21:30 ` need double save-excursion -- why? Joe Corneli
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2003-12-28 12:41 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
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2003-12-25 22:30 ` Joe Corneli
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