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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 9979@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9979: 24.0.91; doc string of `save-window-excursion'
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:49:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmxc89h7h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ECC7D1D865A74A9BA82CDAB1749915D3@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:59:31 -0800")

> Are you really
> suggesting that most of the existing uses of this macro introduce bugs?

Yes.

> But that too does not really say what you want (IIUC).  No one would use
> this to try to _prevent_ opening a new window.

This No one seems to write an awful lot of Elisp code, sadly.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-06 22:59 bug#9979: 24.0.91; doc string of `save-window-excursion' Drew Adams
2011-11-07 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-11-07 16:33   ` Drew Adams
2012-03-11 16:16     ` Chong Yidong

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