From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Survival strategies for markers? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:18:51 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87egz655lg.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401812729 4947 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2014 16:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:25:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 18:25:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WrrWY-0006AT-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:25:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrrWY-0007sh-1i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:25:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 2XTFNbSokFxiFZAuqINn1gE4rETzWgKojwhuAIF/zPWjctpuM7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YmE0ZjgxMGU2MTIzOTVlZWMzOGU2NmI0NzlmMWVhMzcwZWIwNDYxYg== sha1:FJ/ghfK1faCFX9PSBY0iEB3x3cc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205735 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98005 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Hi List, > > when markers are exposed to extreme conditions > > - copy buffer substring (with marker m) from buffer A to temporary > - buffer B > - modify buffer content in B > - change major mode in B > > how do they survive? > > Or, more prosaic, can I do these things and somehow copy (bufferlocal?) > m from A to B, or do I have to take an indirect approach remembering m's > position in A in a global var and set a new marker at that position in > B (or so)? The later. Markers are independent objects, they're not embedded in strings. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "Le mercure monte ? C'est le moment d'acheter !"