From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-excursion and save-current-buffer - edits to the manual Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:12 -0400 Message-ID: <878vwaalvn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <19836.61380.828000.270873@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300566997 4350 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2011 20:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 21:36:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q12sz-0000IU-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:36:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q12sz-0003Hx-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35933 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q12ss-0003FM-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q12sq-0008A7-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:52336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q12sp-00089y-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from furball ([64.134.40.187]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2JKaDuV019494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 261F616030E; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <19836.61380.828000.270873@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:24:36 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137432 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy 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.