Re: Missing `with' macro?

[Stuart D. Herring]

> I see.  When there is more than one candidate, get_truename_buffer
> picks the one that comes first in the buffer list.  So the cleanest
> solution would be to make sure it always finds with-file's buffer.
>
> The simplest and most natural way is to put that buffer at the front
> of the buffer list.  There are kludgy ways to do this from Lisp, but
> the cleanest way is just to make a primitive to do it.

`record_buffer' does precisely this (along with promoting the buffer in
its frame's list).  Should this be made callable from Lisp so that such
things as `with-file' can use it?

Davis

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