bug#8275: 24.0.50; Intro to Emacs Lisp Issue

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 20.03.2011 04:34, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
>> Do you want to fix this, or shall I try?  The problem is that
>> append-to-buffer now uses let* and with-current-buffer, so this might
>> break the flow of the text.  At this point in the book, let* and
>> with-current-buffer are not yet introduced.
>
> Here are some thoughts:
> - I don't think it's of any importance that the example code be
>    identical to the currently used code.
> - append-to-buffer might not be the best example since AFAICT copying
>    text from one buffer to another is not a common operation and in most
>    cases this is done via buffer-substring + insert (often with some
>    processing on the string between the two) rather than with
>    insert-buffer-substring which is a rarely used function.
> - yes, I think the text would benefit from some rethink to try and present
>    with-current-buffer in preference to set-buffer, but it's not
>    a simple fix.
>
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>          Stefan
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just add:

"as GNU Emacs version 19 used it"

Cheers

Andreas