Re: eval-last-sexp -> syntax error -> deletes rest of buffer!

[Luc Teirlinck]

David Reitter wrote:

   Seems to me like half of my buffer has gone to Nirvana. How do I get  
   it back? That's not obvious from the info description of eval-last- 
   sexp, and I don't understand why it would go away like that. I found  
   out thanks to your tip and a search in the manual: C-x n w.

You got [(MODE Narrow)] in the mode line, the [...] showing you that
you are in a recursive edit.  If you do  C-] to exit the recursive
edit, the narrowing disappears, you do not need to do an explicit
C-x n w.

I do not know whether this behavior occurs by default in releases, or
only in CVS and pretests, which are more debugging oriented.

Sincerely,

Luc.