From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: John Chandler <chandler@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: 16181@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 07:26:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6oc4wrw.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201312180136.rBI1aUj9050387@cfa0.cfa.harvard.edu> (John Chandler's message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:36:30 -0500")
John Chandler <chandler@cfa.harvard.edu> writes:
> The following macro is a short example:
>
> (defun ttt() "add tag from start" (interactive)
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char 0)
> (copy-to-register 26 (point) (progn (forward-word 1)(point)) t))
> (insert-register 26)
> (forward-line 1))
>
> The file to be edited using this macro should begin with a line
> containing a list of words to be inserted in front of a succession of
> lines in the file. If the lines in the file generally wrap,
> especially if they wrap multiple times each, the successive
> application of the macro should quickly trigger the bug.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)
I've tried to reproduce this problem in Emacs 28, but things seem to be
working as expected for me. Are you still seeing this problem in more
recent versions of Emacs?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-30 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-18 1:36 bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point John Chandler
2014-02-26 20:31 ` bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point - partial workaround Chandler, John
2021-05-30 5:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-05-30 19:23 ` bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point Chandler, John
2021-05-31 5:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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