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Re: save-excursion and the mark


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: save-excursion and the mark
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:58:30 +0700

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm tempted to throw away the "save&restore mark" feature, since it
> seems to be never used, and I've actually bumped into a few cases where
> it's more annoying than useful (tho I wouldn't call them truly harmful).

Perhaps it can be solved in a backward-compatible way, by introducing
two new functions, say, save-point-excursion and save-mark-excursion,
then implementing save-excursion in terms of their composition and
cross-referencing both from its docstring?



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