Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'

[Stefan Monnier]

>> If you say that you find most (save-excursion (set-buffer combinations
>> in the Emacs code base a bad idea, the solution is using grep and fixing
>> all those occurences where you think they are an error.
> Admittedly, there are too many occurrences of this idiom to be fixed by
> a single person in reasonable time.

I do have them all fixed here (only for files bundles with Emacs, obviously).

> I suppose Stefan, when fixing a bug incorrectly using that idiom,
> decided that the respective authors should care about the
> remaining instances.

No, as you may have noticed I installed a whole bunch of little patches
to most of lisp/**/*.el to fix those issues.  The remaining ones are in
lisp/gnus.


        Stefan