Re: with-current-buffer

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Juri Linkov wrote:
 > What causes trouble here is the fact that Emacs changes the current
 > buffer behind the scenes (somewhere in the main loop), so at the end
 > of the function it is not known what the buffer will be current after
 > the function finishes.  But sometimes it is desirable to perform some
 > actions on that buffer (e.g. run hooks).

But you also changed the selected window.  That is the cause of the
trouble.

 > Maybe with-current-buffer should keep track of switching buffers
 > inside with-current-buffer, so it could anticipate what a buffer will
 > be set as current and don't restore the old buffer.
 >
 > Or maybe `pop-to-buffer inside with-current-buffer' is not a suitable
 > programming construct (I mean mostly for the `next-error' command
 > where this problem occurred) and it's better to replace it with more
 > explicit buffer switching that will restore the old buffer only when
 > there were no `pop-to-buffer' calls.

In the old days we'd use save-window-excursion; now there is
save-selected-window.

Should there be a with-selected-window macro, analogous to
with-current-buffer?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers