On 05/04/2015 04:02 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote: > > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> + (setf nmark (marker-position saved-mark)) >> ^^^^ >> Old habits die hard. > > Should `setf' be avoided? Is it only when `setq' would do instead? I'm guessing Stefan doesn't want loading simple.el (in the case where it's not already compiled) to force the autoloading of gv.el.