From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: no difference between interactive and "from Lisp"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 05:42:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871quyaove.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv5ykbht89.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> That's because `beginning-of-buffer' is in Elisp and
>> `goto-char' is in C, right?
>
> No. It's because `beginning-of-buffer' is meant for
> interactive use, so it messes with the mark, for example.
> Messing with the mark is a bad idea when some piece of ELisp
> code goes to BOB just as part of doing something else (e.g.
> just to go see what the first line looks like in order to
> decide how to perform some local operation elsewhere in the
> buffer).
OK, thanks! I'll get back to you, God willing :)
(defun bob ...
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2022-07-03 19:16 Making a function than can only be used interactively carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 19:28 ` Bruno Barbier
[not found] ` <N64WnlX--3-2@missing-mail-id>
2022-07-03 19:36 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 19:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-07-03 20:17 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-04 4:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-07-05 23:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-03 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 20:27 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 20:51 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-03 21:29 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-03 22:45 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-04 1:13 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvczelllyq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org-N65lQ2m----2>
2022-07-04 10:36 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-04 10:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-07-04 11:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-04 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-04 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-04 21:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-05 17:35 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-04 19:17 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-04 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-04 19:50 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-04 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-06 0:07 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-06 20:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-06 20:29 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-07 11:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-07 21:06 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-07 21:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-07 22:14 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-08 3:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-08 6:08 ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-08 6:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-08 6:55 ` Yuri Khan
2022-07-08 11:44 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-09 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-10 4:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-08 12:06 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-08 12:11 ` Christopher Dimech
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2022-07-08 12:18 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-08 16:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-07-08 20:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-07-08 21:09 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-08 22:17 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-08 22:34 ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-09 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2022-08-09 2:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-09 2:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-08 23:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-07-04 20:53 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-05 23:30 ` no difference between interactive and "from Lisp" (was: Re: Making a function than can only be used interactively) Emanuel Berg
2022-07-06 2:28 ` no difference between interactive and "from Lisp" Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-06 3:42 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-07-04 1:06 ` Making a function than can only be used interactively Po Lu
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