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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 8275@debbugs.gnu.org, "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@gnu.org>,
	Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
Subject: bug#8275: 24.0.50; Intro to Emacs Lisp Issue
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:34:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvcze31ut.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkoqwz4w.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:58:55 -0400")

> Do you want to fix this, or shall I try?  The problem is that
> append-to-buffer now uses let* and with-current-buffer, so this might
> break the flow of the text.  At this point in the book, let* and
> with-current-buffer are not yet introduced.

Here are some thoughts:
- I don't think it's of any importance that the example code be
  identical to the currently used code.
- append-to-buffer might not be the best example since AFAICT copying
  text from one buffer to another is not a common operation and in most
  cases this is done via buffer-substring + insert (often with some
  processing on the string between the two) rather than with
  insert-buffer-substring which is a rarely used function.
- yes, I think the text would benefit from some rethink to try and present
  with-current-buffer in preference to set-buffer, but it's not
  a simple fix.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-20  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17 17:35 bug#8275: 24.0.50; Intro to Emacs Lisp Issue Jason Earl
2011-03-19 21:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-20  1:06   ` Robert J. Chassell
2011-03-20  3:34   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-20 21:20     ` Andreas Röhler
2021-10-21 19:42     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-12  6:50       ` bug#8275: [PATCH] " Y. E. via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-12  8:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-14 12:52           ` Y. E. via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-16  4:38             ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-18 14:27             ` Eli Zaretskii

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