Re: save-excursion again

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Uday S Reddy writes:
>
> The point is that if
>
>    ;; current buffer is "bar"
>    (save-excursion
>     (set-buffer "foo")
>     (frob-current-buffer))


Just a simple question from someone that does not understand:

What is wrong with just saving the point in the buffer you are
interested and then returning to that, i.e.

  (let ((here (point)) ;; maybe (point-marker) sometimes
    ...
    (prog1