Re: no difference between interactive and "from Lisp"

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> 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).

OK, thanks! I'll get back to you, God willing :)

(defun bob ...

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