From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer' Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4D792D16.1080900@easy-emacs.de> <87pqpwr8ay.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d3lwr56j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4d7b8ea3$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87k4g4pdi3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4d7c2ea3$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300224644 8293 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2011 21:30:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 22:30:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzbp7-0000gq-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:30:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzbp6-0004mx-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34475 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzbog-0004h0-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzbof-00086g-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:51800 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzboe-00086Z-W0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:09 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEANF2f01FxIRf/2dsb2JhbACmDHiIQbkRhWIElVs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,191,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="96683808" Original-Received: from 69-196-132-95.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.132.95]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 15 Mar 2011 17:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6610D660C9; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:30:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:56:03 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80151 Archived-At: > The warning has already mistaught some (e.g. Uday) that > `save-excursion' is just downright evil. Don't worry: Uday is a big boy. He understands the issue at least as well as you do, probably much better. Stefan