From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making code more Emacs Lisp-like
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:39:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skcwxwzr.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: upr80po56.fsf@raytheon.com
Sarir Khamsi <sarir.khamsi@raytheon.com> writes:
> Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> writes:
>> The goal there is to avoid messing with the kill-ring or the mark
>> history if that's not necessary. Otherwise you may surprise the
>> user with the unwanted side-effects.
>
> save-excursion is supposed to "Save point, mark, and current buffer;
> execute BODY; restore those things" but I understand that you want to
> avoid modifying the kill ring. Thanks.
Good point... but don't always assume that save-excursion is really
going to save what you think it will. Every now and then I find
a case where it doesn't seem to want to restore the current buffer,
and I need to do that manually.
(No, I haven't yet filed a bug report. Maybe next time I see the
problem.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 15:19 Making code more Emacs Lisp-like Sarir Khamsi
2009-11-02 20:05 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-02 22:17 ` Sarir Khamsi
2009-11-03 0:39 ` Joseph Brenner [this message]
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