Re: no difference between interactive and "from Lisp"

[Stefan Monnier]

> That's because `beginning-of-buffer' is in Elisp and
> `goto-char' is in C, right?

No.  It's because `beginning-of-buffer' is meant for interactive use, so
it messes with the mark, for example.  Messing with the mark is a bad
idea when some piece of ELisp code goes to BOB just as part of doing
something else (e.g. just to go see what the first line looks like in
order to decide how to perform some local operation elsewhere in the
buffer).


        Stefan