From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35536: 27.0.50; Expose buffer's marker list to Elisp Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 23:05:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnp0oc5k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lfzo274b.fsf@tcd.ie> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="45930"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 35536@debbugs.gnu.org, maurooaranda@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 02 22:06:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHy6-000BhH-Jn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 22:06:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHy5-0007jS-Gp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxz-0007jL-3A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxy-0003u5-6G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33541) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxy-0003tt-2Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxx-00077s-T8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:06:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 20:06:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35536 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 35536-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35536.155682755027373 (code B ref 35536); Thu, 02 May 2019 20:06:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35536) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 May 2019 20:05:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47084 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxl-00077Q-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34841) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxj-000778-13 for 35536@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxd-0003ij-BH; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3589 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hMHxU-0002p7-NW; Thu, 02 May 2019 16:05:35 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 02 May 2019 15:59:38 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:158662 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 15:59:38 -0400 > Cc: 35536@debbugs.gnu.org, Mauro Aranda > > AFAIK the main reason for such a function is so that you can implement > "replace" functions which preserves markers better than "insert+delete" > does, right? If this is the use case, perhaps we could provide a function to save markers and then restore them, similar to current-window-configuration and set-window-configuration, but with opaque handles returned to the caller.