From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'David Kastrup'" <dak@gnu.org>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: `save-exursion' makes a comeback!
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:02:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12BFB1D857B848BC862DBEAAC016E686@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3lso1a6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > Forget about `save-excursion' "saving" or "restoring" or
> > "hiding" or "protecting" anything. Forget about it "defeating"
> > or being "defeated". Forget all of that right now.
> >
> > The real name of `save-excursion' is `come-back-here'.
> > Just remember that and Bob's your uncle.
>
> M-: (with-temp-buffer (let ((b (current-buffer))) (save-excursion
> (set-buffer "*scratch*") (kill-buffer b))) (current-buffer)) RET
Yes, David. I explicitly mentioned that case before (though that was no doubt
lost in the bit torrent). This makes it even clearer, I think:
(defun foo ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(message "BEFORE KILL, buf: %S, pt: %S, mark: %S"
(current-buffer) (point) (mark))
(sit-for 2)
(kill-buffer (current-buffer))
(message "BEFORE END, buf: %S, pt: %S, mark: %S"
(current-buffer) (point) (mark))
(sit-for 2))
(message "AFTER, buf: %S, pt: %S, mark: %S"
(current-buffer) (point) (mark))
(sit-for 2))
M-x foo RET
This is no different from your father saying "Come back here!" as you run out
the door, and your then burning down the house so there is no place to come back
to.
Really, this kind of thing just adds confusion to the discussion for most users.
There is nothing special here to do with `save-excursion'. `save-excursion'
just does an `unwind-protect' to return where you came from. If in the meantime
you have nuked the place you came from then there is nothing that
`save-excursion', `unwind-protect', or the Emacs god herself can do to bring
your home back.
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2011-03-15 15:23 ` `save-exursion' makes a comeback! David Kastrup
2011-03-15 16:02 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2011-03-15 16:11 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-16 12:48 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-15 15:07 Drew Adams
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