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From: | David Kastrup |
Subject: | Re: `save-exursion' makes a comeback! |
Date: | Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:23:45 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: > Forget about `save-excursion' "saving" or "restoring" or > "hiding" or "protecting" anything. Forget about it "defeating" > or being "defeated". Forget all of that right now. > > The real name of `save-excursion' is `come-back-here'. > Just remember that and Bob's your uncle. M-: (with-temp-buffer (let ((b (current-buffer))) (save-excursion (set-buffer "*scratch*") (kill-buffer b))) (current-buffer)) RET -- David Kastrup
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