From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Survival strategies for markers? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:55:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87ha42mi5m.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401789391 30841 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2014 09:56:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:56:31 +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 11:56:24 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 1WrlS9-0006JK-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrlS8-0006vv-RV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrlRk-0006kQ-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrlRc-0004RF-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrlRc-0004R8-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WrlRZ-0005qi-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.58.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:55:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178058078.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L3cp6VOKQ4SHmb1i4mEX5cnb984= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:97999 Archived-At: 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)? -- cheers, Thorsten