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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.
You must use set-buffer or save-excursion too.

All AFAIK.