GNU bug report logs - #35536
27.0.50; Expose buffer's marker list to Elisp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 35536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, 35536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, maurooaranda <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#35536: 27.0.50; Expose buffer's marker list to Elisp
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 23:05:11 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 15:59:38 -0400
> Cc: 35536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> 
> AFAIK the main reason for such a function is so that you can implement
> "replace" functions which preserves markers better than "insert+delete"
> does, right?

If this is the use case, perhaps we could provide a function to save
markers and then restore them, similar to current-window-configuration
and set-window-configuration, but with opaque handles returned to the
caller.
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