Re: garbace collection of point-markers

[Pascal Bourguignon]

kamphausen@creativepharma.com (Stefan Kamphausen) writes:

> Dear ElispWizards,
> 
> when I call (point-marker) and don't store the return value in a
> variable will that marker be removed at the next garbage collection?

It seems so:
 
(show (let ((curpt (point)))
        (set-marker (make-marker) curpt)
        (cons (buffer-has-markers-at curpt)
              (progn (garbage-collect)
                     (buffer-has-markers-at curpt)))))
==> (t . t)

> Or does the DONT-COPY-P argument achieve this?

Not even needed.  What is it?  Note that in emacs, the reader does not
convert-case the symbols.  So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))


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