From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shell-resync-dirs changes my cursor position Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <22953.128.165.0.81.1189470963.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189473168 22315 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2007 01:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chris Moore , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 11:12:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IV1EA-0000HA-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:36:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUtjo-0003oI-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUtjk-0003mW-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUtjj-0003jn-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUtji-0003jJ-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUtje-0005Sc-P5; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8B0a58i015494; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:36:05 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8B0a3wG022335; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:36:03 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8B0a30a009248; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:36:03 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l8B0a35d009246; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:03 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.0.81 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78541 Archived-At: > Is there a clean, simple way of writing it with save-excursion? > If that way won't work, then there needs to be a comment explaining > why it won't -- why the extra complexity is needed. I didn't think there was, because point needs to be restored to a different location in the buffer (after more output from the process), but minimal testing seems to suggest that it works because the original text is left in the buffer (just with more inserted before it). OP, if you don't know what we mean, just ask me off-list. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.