From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es
Subject: Re: Pushing the mark from a primitive like goto-char
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9cmj88z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRUQfqiB7Z=PeDDB+7wJ5cqeJCZVG5GR53AUbJ2MdVArw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:17:30 +0100)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:17:30 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Am Mo., 28. Dez. 2020 um 13:15 Uhr schrieb Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>:
> > goto-char is an interactive function that has the potential to take you
> > long distances, so it might be a good idea, for user convenience, to
> > push the mark as a documented side effect (is it a good idea?).
>
> goto-char is a low-level primitive that's used pervasively in Emacs
> Lisp code. I think that pushing the mark would be a way too drastic
> change.
I tend to agree. I think this is the reason why goto-char was not
made to push the mark in the first place.
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2020-12-28 12:14 ` Pushing the mark from a primitive like goto-char Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 14:17 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-28 14:45 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-28 14:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-28 15:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-28 16:49 ` martin rudalics
2020-12-28 17:15 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29 8:54 ` martin rudalics
2020-12-29 14:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-29 16:59 ` martin rudalics
2020-12-29 17:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 19:25 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-30 9:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 9:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-30 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 5:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-31 2:43 ` Howard Melman
2021-01-05 19:06 ` Daniel Martín via "Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-05 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 19:52 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-05 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 20:29 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-06 5:12 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 19:53 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-08 19:30 ` Daniel Martín via "Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-05 19:56 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-06 19:26 ` Gabriel do Nascimento Ribeiro
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