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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete all whitespace (space) in a region
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:33:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkbwu1ax.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e360b39e-db24-461e-9ce6-29186b234b25@easy-emacs.de

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> The latter updates the end, whereas the previous keeps the old limit,
> which may do unexpected deletions.

Indeed.  In such cases using markers is useful:

  (unless (markerp end)
    (setq end (copy-marker end)))

If you want to be kind to the gc, invalidate the marker at the end of
the function:

  (move-marker end nil)


Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-14  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-08 17:53 delete all whitespace (space) in a region Uwe Brauer
2023-11-08 19:15 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-11-09  2:24   ` tpeplt
2023-11-09  2:43     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-11-13 16:02       ` Uwe Brauer
2023-11-09  5:34     ` tomas
2023-11-14  8:41       ` Andreas Röhler
2023-11-14  9:33         ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-11-09  8:44     ` Uwe Brauer
2023-11-09 15:58       ` tpeplt

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