Re: Survival strategies for markers?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi List, 
>
> when markers are exposed to extreme conditions
>
>  - copy buffer substring (with marker m) from buffer A to temporary
>  - buffer B
>  - modify buffer content in B
>  - change major mode in B
>
> how do they survive? 
>
> Or, more prosaic, can I do these things and somehow copy (bufferlocal?)
> m from A to B, or do I have to take an indirect approach remembering m's
> position in A in a global var and set a new marker at that position in
> B (or so)?

The later.

Markers are independent objects, they're not embedded in strings.

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