From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: save-excursion doesn't always work
Date: 16 Dec 2002 17:21:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x53coy3pez.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5l7keaeyuy.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu
"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:
> > You can't, for the above reason. AUCTeX's filling modes would have to
> > be rewritten so that instead of deleting all spaces and reinserting
> > one space, AUCTeX would delete all spaces except one.
> > I think Emacs' default filling by now does something like that.
>
> It might do a few things slightly differently, but it will modify the
> buffer anyway, even if the end result is exactly the same as the
> starting point (e.g. it will first turn all \n into spaces and then
> turn them back into \n).
We are not talking about modification of the buffer, but about marks
being moved around in seemingly random manner.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-16 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-15 5:38 save-excursion doesn't always work Ittay Freiman
2002-12-15 10:37 ` David Kastrup
2002-12-16 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-12-16 16:21 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2002-12-16 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-12-16 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2002-12-16 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-12-16 18:46 ` David Kastrup
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