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: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:58:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19483.43525.253000.115910@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87pqzncc0y.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 1276959532 18031 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2010 14:58:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 19 16:58:50 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OPzVS-00088o-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:58:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPzVR-0000Uo-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59096 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPzVM-0000Te-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPzVL-0007Ik-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:46255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPzVK-0007Id-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1304503gxk.0 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:58:42 -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=rzSLDgklNjXClEPYJH6bseIddRdieQgvp/4ZTaPrO+k=; b=xg330C/eG8P01Xr2eaZGyP80xdxFOGiYn1oKkRqnDTMVfBrG+RdSpiEM+/DFIUS0hI mGBIaxZPVDmibnAZ1kZgbU4dXdlcXuG7LFzsY+K1UaX7PLPeJhNvW33XMNB5rdYRHFt8 9xTDAX+2lLwD+tvp3F/DKKO6h+2Cm6uxE4dkI= 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=iWegmqVCJvwUHQsRn2zhdZLh3EXRK7P0W3B/qi2b6NIXRgGmrOYF5HdPuwVee3kPed OFY4cgIxM/LQM9Xu8k/OGZKDLc12LhYLaVxCfQOXm6HIGFoZYqPXtnRFWTI/5VKspw1a v3Oo0lVI9AawR+lZ7DiaDC+j5Irb6jO4tqt5c= Original-Received: by 10.101.4.4 with SMTP id g4mr2077466ani.156.1276959522203; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.154.15 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:58:22 -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:126225 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull > wrote: >> Uday S Reddy writes: >> >> The point is that if >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0;; current buffer is "bar" >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0(save-excursion >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (set-buffer "foo") >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (frob-current-buffer)) > > > Just a simple question from someone that does not understand: > > What is wrong with just saving the point in the buffer you are > interested and then returning to that, i.e. > > =C2=A0(let ((here (point)) ;; maybe (point-marker) sometimes > =C2=A0 =C2=A0... > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(prog1 Eh... (let ((here (point))) ... (prog1 return_value (goto-char here)))