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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 18011-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18011: 24.4.50; REGRESSION, `help-echo' function value now needs `save-excursion'
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:41:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yhmwccyggy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a687506e-f255-4cfe-a19c-723ddd634ac9@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:11:24 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams wrote:

> Why should a `help-echo' function need to `save-excursion'?

I can't think why it should NOT need to, if it moves point;
nor can I find any Emacs release where it does not need to.
I tested back to 22.3 with

(put-text-property 1 10 'help-echo 'foo)

(defun foo (w o p)
  (goto-char (point-max))
  "foo")

> HTH.  Close the bug if you don't care about this - I have my fix.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-13 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-13 23:11 bug#18011: 24.4.50; REGRESSION, `help-echo' function value now needs `save-excursion' Drew Adams
2014-07-13 23:41 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-07-14  3:53   ` Drew Adams

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