From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-excursion again
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:29:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6ec744p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4pwphfi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:02:41 +0200")
> I don't see how this process is supposed to terminate if users find
> counterexamples. Presumably the original code is then reinstated, and
> the whole procedure starts from the beginning.
No, when we find a bug we replace the code with something *else*.
Typically we replace (with-current-buffer B ...) by
(with-current-buffer B (save-excursion ...)), or is some other case we
have to replace it with (save-excursion B (with-current-buffer ...)).
> It would not appear that there is a way to _intentionally_ use that
> construct without you eventually replacing it.
That's right.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-18 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 7:42 save-excursion again Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-18 14:02 ` David Kastrup
2010-06-18 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-06-18 17:16 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-19 14:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-19 14:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-19 14:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-19 17:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-19 17:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-25 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-26 0:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-01 0:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-01 4:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-04 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-26 11:03 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-01 0:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-01 1:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-04 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-19 16:22 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-06-18 15:04 ` Davis Herring
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