From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: point moved despite save-excursion, after deleting/reinserting region Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:12:08 +0300 Message-ID: <835zy0sgbr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r2gpic0b.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539792654 29689 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2018 16:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:10:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 17 18:10:50 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoPK-0007do-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoRR-0004nk-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoQi-0004ku-RA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoQh-0008RK-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoQg-0008Q2-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1392 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gCoQf-0004fi-OM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:12:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2gpic0b.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118309 Archived-At: > From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 03:43:16 +0200 > > I spent some time on one or two functions that modified a org source > block, evaled it, and restored it as before the modification: after > narrowing, I saved it using buffer-substring, and restored it using > delete-region then insert what I saved. > > However doing that my point ends either at the beginning or the end of > what I inserted, even after save-excursion is over. > > How to fix that? Please explain what did you want the code to do instead, it's unclear from your description.