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Re: save-excursion and the mark


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: save-excursion and the mark
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:50:19 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Why not make a new construct with a different name, such as
> 'save-point', to save only point.

If save-excursion is in practice never used to save&restore the mark,
then changing save-excursion would be a lot simpler and would save us
from introducing a 99% redundant `save-point'.


        Stefan



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