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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving (and finding) markers
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:11:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837eifqala.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh13oxn5.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu>

> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:36:14 +0200
> 
> > I pointed you to replace-buffer-contents function, because AFAIU in
> > your situation it will modify the text while keeping as many markers
> > (including point) intact as possible.  Did you try using it?
> 
> I might then use a separate buffer so to store the original content,
> without doing the computation (C-c C-c) on it, and restore it later in
> original buffer?
> 
> Looking to online manual it seems to be what I want, except it’s
> undefined on my GNU Emacs 25.1.1

Indeed, it appeared in Emacs 26.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-18 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-17  1:43 point moved despite save-excursion, after deleting/reinserting region Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-17 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-17 20:13   ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18  2:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-18  9:50       ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 11:32         ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-18 11:45           ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 13:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-18 18:08           ` Saving (and finding) markers (Was: Re: point moved despite save-excursion, after deleting/reinserting region) Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 18:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-18 19:36               ` Saving (and finding) markers Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 20:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-19  1:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-19  6:38                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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