From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-excursion and the mark Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150224103716.5cb7c25f@anarchist.wooz.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424958638 25423 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2015 13:50:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: barry@python.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 14:50:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YQypg-0003OY-VW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQypg-0002gz-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQypc-0002dF-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQypY-00073x-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:54081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQypY-00073t-2k; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:20 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArsTAPOG1lRsoXmY/2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSIOAjOIwEBAQEGAQEBAR6PeAeEKgWKJ59LgUUihAwggnMBAQE X-IPAS-Result: ArsTAPOG1lRsoXmY/2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSIOAjOIwEBAQEGAQEBAR6PeAeEKgWKJ59LgUUihAwggnMBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,536,1418101200"; d="scan'208";a="111534243" Original-Received: from 108-161-121-152.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.121.152]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Feb 2015 08:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 419CD1219; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:30:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183513 Archived-At: > Why not make a new construct with a different name, such as > 'save-point', to save only point. If save-excursion is in practice never used to save&restore the mark, then changing save-excursion would be a lot simpler and would save us from introducing a 99% redundant `save-point'. Stefan