Re: Why save-excursion doesn't restore cursor position after 3 kill-line calls?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article 
<429c5cab-0015-4eb6-a794-ce990c6255d6@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com>,
 "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:

> I'm trying to map C-d to a function that deletes an entire line and
> stops on the *SAME* column number of the following line....
> 
> (global-set-key "\^d" (lambda () (interactive) (save-excursion (kill-
> line)
>  
> (kill-line 0)
>  
> (kill-line))))
> 
> Why doesn't save-excursion preserve the column number after these kill-
> line invocations?
> 
> chris

save-excursion restores the location in the buffer, not the row and 
column positions.  If the text around the location is deleted, it finds 
the closest remaining location.

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