Re: Return to Marker

[Jesper Harder]

"CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:

> "Jesper Harder" <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote...
>>
>> Don't use `beginning-of-buffer' in Lisp code, it'll cause the type of
>> problem you describe.  Use (goto-char (point-min)) instead.
>
> Thanks, Jesper. Problem solved. Seems like this is something that
> should be "fixed".

It isn't really a bug.  It's just that some functions are designed as
user-level interactive commands -- they do more than you want when you
use them in a program.

You're not the first to hit this problem :-) and the docstring for
`beginning-of-buffer' does warn about it :

| Don't use this command in Lisp programs!
| (goto-char (point-min)) is faster and avoids clobbering the mark.