From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 13122@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13122: save-excursion not saving point
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:57:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imv0vstn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mukciluz.fsf@calancha-pc.dy.bbexcite.jp> (message from Tino Calancha on Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:53:56 +0900)
> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:53:56 +0900
>
> ;; Following expression should eval as non-nil
> (let ((pos 3))
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert "abcdef")
> (goto-char pos)
> (save-excursion (transpose-chars 2))
> (= pos (point))))
> => nil
Why did you think it should evaluate to non-nil? The ELisp manual has
a warning near the end of description of save-excursion; I think it's
relevant to this use case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-27 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-08 6:20 bug#13122: save-excursion not saving point Jyothis V
2012-12-08 11:21 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-21 5:43 ` Chong Yidong
2013-01-07 12:32 ` bug#13122: sort-regexp-fields also seems to not save point Alexander Kjeldaas
2019-04-26 19:53 ` bug#13122: save-excursion not saving point Tino Calancha
2019-04-27 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-27 7:44 ` Tino Calancha
2019-04-27 9:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-04 8:39 ` Tino Calancha
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