Re: save-excursion doesn't restore point with json-pretty-print

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:33:23 +0100
> 
> > Perhaps json-pretty-print could use the new replace-buffer-contents
> > function?  Although I'm not sure this will cure the problem, at least
> > not in all cases.
> 
> replace-buffer-contents would be a lot easier to use in this context
> if it could take a string. Otherwise you have to create a buffer,
> select it, insert a string, then pass that buffer to
> replace-buffer-contents, delete the buffer.

json-read-from-string uses a temporary buffer anyway, so a couple of
trivial changes in json-pretty-print should do the trick.

IOW, we have buffer text to begin with, so going through strings is
the part that should be eliminated, not the other way around, IMO.