Re: save-excursion again

[Stefan Monnier]

> Which brings up a question for Stefan.  Are you saying that the
> condition-case-save-point-and-mark aspect of `save-excursion' should
> be abstracted out (say as `save-region') and separated from the
> save-buffer aspect?

Not sure what you mean.  If you mean we should introduce
a save-excursion-but-not-buffer, then I think it's a bad idea, because
such a thing would still have to save a marker (so there's no
improvement in terms of the amount of data saved) and the semantics of
"restore point in another buffer" is murky in Emacs.


        Stefan