Re: save-excursion and the mark

[Stefan Monnier]

> Code that previously relied on `save-excursion' restoring the mark no
> longer works, and that's fine.  But could we have a new form like
> `save-mark' (or something) that we could just slap around forms that
> previously relied on this form behaving the old way?

(cl-letf (((mark))) ...) might do the trick.
Or maybe you'll need (cl-letf (((mark)) (mark-active)) ...).
note that if the "..." activates or deactivates the mark, you're
probably somewhat in trouble in the sense that (de)activate-mark-hook
will be run, despite the cl-letf, and you can't really undo the effect
of running a hook.


        Stefan