From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-excursion again Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:54:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19483.43525.253000.115910@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87pqzncc0y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iq5fc4wj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277949286 8484 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 01:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 01:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 03:54:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU8zE-0007sb-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:54:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU8zD-0005dz-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56312 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU8z8-0005cl-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU8z7-00073J-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:35487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU8z7-00073B-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so599384ewy.0 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:54:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xa2oDRmsEU8E4PuyvRK0gdaaszKd4yLVoIvgvTCIG8g=; b=G2CSE4lPtNp1P6zxc45FRnViSV1UHd2IkFaHHXNR/r9JXDyJdSQpfApeDVIONNDf4w C8EAQIt5xVnyx6iSvWC3eAQwOnXK/MZfA4XV3lPZMbAtsC046+6SdF6YQMABo2v+Vf/p euzWw8UZpWIncNth7AnZjUxjtnfDJYgZUmgUs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rrroS3GKtcImE964Oo8Uh9iWSaMW/PXZaI2ca3ieSOr8X4fY/VNBizKe4Aw2sLloj+ yb6+TZUxNVLVlgxX1i9RiQoiY8W3MSyEY4Z+zrDAQeWPVGx7QAZifhhrJ0muZiZa432E oIqqTKUcMx1x6mCrJlOpYjqkytPVa5VmbXlOs= Original-Received: by 10.213.40.198 with SMTP id l6mr4160332ebe.48.1277949269213; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.15.132 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:54:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126577 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Stefan Monnier w= rote: > >> I took Stephen's point as saying that, if we have separate >> save-current-buffer and save-region, with save-excursion strongly >> discouraged, we would promote a clearer programming style. > > Probably. =C2=A0But then, for the same reasons, you'd also want to have > save-point since save-region is so rarely needed. So what is wrong with having those?