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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>>> 2- save-excursion saves the "position and current buffer" as a marker.
>>>> Combine 1 and 2 together, and you'll see that save-excursion ends up
>>>> changing the current buffer.
>>
>>> Oops. Yes, I see.
>>> Well, we could document it, but from my POV it looks more like a bug
>>> than a "feature".
>>
>> Agreed.  This said, we have a problem.
>
> Has this been fixed?  I seem to be unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs
> 24...

Reproduces for me with 23.4 up through 25.0.95.  So here's a patch to
mention it in the manual: