Re: Can we make set_point_both less expensive?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:15:46 +0600
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
>       Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The reason I implemented 'intangible' was for the sake of editing
> > forms.  A form has fields to be edited, and fixed text that shouldn't
> > be changed.  But there is no need to put point within the fixed text;
> > allowing that seems ugly.
> 
> There are in fact plenty of reasons to be able to move point all over
> the form.

You can accomplish that by let-binding inhibit-point-motion-hooks.