Re: Listing markers in buffer

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

"ian.tegebo" <ian.tegebo@gmail.com> writes:

> I see that `buffer-has-markers-at` will at least tell if there are
> markers pointing to a position, but not only has it been marked
> obsolete since 24.3, it doesn't provide one a means to actually get a
> marker object.
>
> Looking at the C source, I can see that buffer to buffer_text structs
> point to a singly linked list of Lisp_marker structs, but I can't find
> any Elisp functions to access them. Also, there's a related thread
> from 1999:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gnu.emacs.help/vNG9y5qCaxc/discussion

Markers belong to their owners, and it would be very dangerous if you
could get them and set or reset them behind the back of their owners.

That said, you can always patch GNU emacs C sources to provide a lisp
access to them.

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