Re: save-excursion and the mark

[Andreas Röhler]

On 23.02.2015 05:44, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> `save-excursion' is defined to save&restore the mark (as well as its
> being active or not).
>
> But I'm having a hard time finding a piece of code where we actually
> make use of this.  Can someone point me to such code (either in Emacs or
> in some external package)?  I.e. point me to code which would misbehave
> if save-excursion were to stop saving&restoring the mark (and/or its
> activation status).
>
>
>          Stefan

Hi Stefan,

See for example indent-code-ridigly.

IMO one of the most valuable functions in Emacs. Useful in all cases, where the 
extend of region is changed.
Fill-commands will use this - that way updating the users mark-(stack?).

Andreas