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Re: with-current-buffer doc string


From: Edward O'Connor
Subject: Re: with-current-buffer doc string
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:19:23 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)

> C-h f with-current-buffer
>
>     Execute the forms in body with buffer as the current buffer. The
>     value returned is the value of the last form in body. See also
>     `with-temp-buffer'.
>
> This says nothing about what buffer is current after
> with-current-buffer. IOW, it does not say that the previously current
> buffer is restored.

`with-current-buffer' simply follows the lisp convention for `with-'
forms in this case. I don't think its docstring needs to explicitly say
this, though perhaps there should be some place (maybe there already is)
in the elisp manual which describes the expected behavior of `with-'
forms.


Ted

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Edward O'Connor
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Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.





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