From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-excursion and save-current-buffer - edits to the manual
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vwaalvn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19836.61380.828000.270873@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:24:36 +0000")
Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
> The debate on save-excursion getting "defeated" flared up again on
> gnu.emacs.help. Somebody noticed that the Lisp manual hasn't been
> updated properly to take account of the new compiler warning.
>
> The attached patch/bundle is an attempt to explain the situation as
> well as to provide guidance on how to use these forms correctly.
> Please let me have any comments.
Thank you. I've committed a patch, along the same lines but using
different wording, to the branch.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-19 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-13 16:24 save-excursion and save-current-buffer - edits to the manual Uday S Reddy
2011-03-13 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-13 21:22 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-14 0:26 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-14 1:17 ` Tim Cross
2011-03-14 22:33 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-15 7:08 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-13 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-14 0:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-19 20:36 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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