From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What happens during eval-buffer?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:33:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jey7x1pxx8.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446A270D.4080206@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 16 May 2006 21:25:01 +0200")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> Start with
>
> emacs -Q
>
> Put this into *Scratch*:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> (defvar temp-html nil)
> (setq temp-html
> ;; Start-here
> "
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> </html>
> ") ;; Stop-here
>
> (let ((start (progn
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (search-forward "Start-here")
> (forward-line 2)
> (point)
> ))
> )
> )
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> With that as the current buffer then do
>
> M-x eval-buffer
>
> I get an error saying "Symbol's value as variable is void: <html>". Have I
> done something completely wrong or?
Yes, replace progn by save-excursion. You have modified point under
eval-buffer's feet, it will continue evaluation until point equals
point-max.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 19:33 UTC|newest]
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2006-05-16 19:25 What happens during eval-buffer? Lennart Borgman
2006-05-16 19:33 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-05-16 19:46 ` Lennart Borgman
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