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bug#48294: Use 'with-current-buffer' byte-compiler warning seems wrong
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#48294: Use 'with-current-buffer' byte-compiler warning seems wrong |
Date: |
Sun, 09 May 2021 19:11:13 +0300 |
> From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 11:57:25 -0400
> Cc: 48294@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Everything you wrote is very clear. The issue,
> however, is that I want to save
> point in the current buffer prior to switching context to the
> 'with-current-buffer' buffer, just as my
> (save-excursion (set-buffer ...)) code does. If I move the save-excursion
> into the with-current-buffer body,
> then it applies to the new buffer not the original one and if in that same
> body we change buffers again to the
> original and move point, then that movement will stay in place. So the
> question is, what is the appropriate
> code that the byte-compiler will accept when you want to save your original
> place before switching buffers.
I don't understand: with-current-buffer doesn't change point of the
original buffer, so why do you need to save it?