GNU bug report logs - #4655
23.1.50; buffer-swap-text oddity

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Rost <rost <at> math.uni-bielefeld.de>

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:55:07 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Markus Rost <rost <at> math.uni-bielefeld.de>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; buffer-swap-text oddity
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2009 20:46:04 +0200 (CEST)
If you evaluate the form

(let ((bufA (get-buffer-create "A"))
      (bufB (get-buffer-create "B")))
  (set-buffer bufA)
  (message "buffer-msg-1 %s" (current-buffer))
  (save-excursion
    (buffer-swap-text bufB))
  (message "buffer-msg-2 %s" (current-buffer)))

the *Messages* buffer contains

buffer-msg-1 A
buffer-msg-2 B

With the save-excursion I would have expected the messages

buffer-msg-1 A
buffer-msg-2 A




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