From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: save-excursion doesn't save point? Date: 08 Jun 2002 17:35:52 +0900 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adq6p3pz.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <20020608055559.GA689668@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE> <87hekep83a.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <20020608072843.GA689936@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023525438 26545 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2002 08:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 08:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Gbin-0006u2-00 for ; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 10:37:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17GbiZ-0001PT-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 04:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17GbhU-0001Ky-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 04:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-245.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.245] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 17GbhS-00044n-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 17:35:55 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E9C330A4; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:35:52 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Paul Stoeber System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <20020608072843.GA689936@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE> Original-Lines: 10 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1877 BTW, using the mark (e.g. the `mark' and `set-mark' functions) in a lisp program is usually the wrong thing to do. You might instead want to check out the function `transpose-regions'. -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)