Re: (save-excursion (other-window 1)) leaves me in the other window

[Sean McAfee]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:
>> Although the documentation for save-excursion says that it saves and
>> restores the current buffer, it doesn't in this case.

> Note that the docs as you noted say that they restore the buffer, not
> the window. This was part of the point I was tyring to make. Buffers and
> windows are not the same thing. 

If the current buffer is restored, then I would expect this expression:

(eq (current-buffer) (save-excursion arbitrary-forms (current-buffer)))

...to always evaluate to t regardless of what arbitrary-forms is, but it
returns nil if I replace arbitrary-forms with (other-window 1).