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bug#70384: [PATCH] 30.0.50; save-mark-and-excursion breaks with tmm disa
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#70384: [PATCH] 30.0.50; save-mark-and-excursion breaks with tmm disabled |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:20:14 +0300 |
tags 70384 notabug wontfix
close 70384
thanks
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Paul Nelson <ultrono@gmail.com>, 70384@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:55:56 -0400
>
> > I'm not sure I agree with your expectations. activate-mark activates
> > the mark unconditionally when transient-mark-mode is disabled, unless
> > you invoke it with a non-nil argument. And indeed
> >
> > (save-mark-and-excursion (activate-mark t))
> >
> > behaves like you expect.
> >
> > Stefan, am I missing something?
>
> It's all very messy with dark corners where the right answer is unclear,
> yes. That's one of the reasons why I extracted that mark-handling
> functionality out of `save-excursion` in the first place. 🙂
>
> IOW my opinion is: if you use `save-mark-and-excursion`, you get what
> you deserve.
OK, thanks. So I'm closing this non-bug as wontfix.