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25.0.93; iter-defun does not support special form save-current-buffer

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 23430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23430: 25.0.93; iter-defun does not support special form
 save-current-buffer
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 01:46:54 +0300

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On 05/03/2016 04:31 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> The above example seemed to me to be the prime use case for generator.el
> (e.g. lazily parsing output from an asynchronous process), so this
> is disappointing.

Actually, I take this back.

- generator.el doesn't seem useful for parsing output from an 
asynchronous process because it has no way to indicate whether the 
process has new output, or to return control back to Emacs while the 
process is still running but has no new output. It seems to call for a 
different abstraction.

- with-current-buffer turned out not to be so essential. Nor 
save-excursion. I've reimplemented xref--buf-pairs-iterator using 
iter-lambda but couldn't get the full benefit of the package because 
that function also needs a way to reliably clean up resources. The 
result is a bit more comprehensible, but also longer, so I'm hesitant to 
use it (attached).

So sum up, maybe this bug can be closed, but I'd like to see Daniel's 
opinion. Supporting with-current-buffer might turn out to be more 
essential in other cases.

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