Re: How to put this in a macro

[José A . Romero L .]

On 17 Kwi, 21:38, Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
(...)
> beginning. So it is not really important at the moment. But I like to
> make robust code, and when in the future the macro is used where it is a
> problem when the start is after the end ... So is it possible to switch
> the values when the end is before the start?
(...)

If you're in for a bit of coding stunts :-) I guess we could have one
last try, using your name, Barry's macro and shorter variable names:

    (defmacro dcbl-set-bounds (start end)
      `(progn
         (if (equal ,start ,end)
             (setq ,start (point-min)
                   ,end (point-max))
           (setq ,start (or ,start (point-min))
                 ,end (or ,end (point-max))))

         (setq ,start (list ,start ,end)
               ,start (sort ,start '<)
               ,end   (second ,start)
               ,start (first ,start))))

it should be OK to use one of the variables being changed as the temp
var, shouldn't it?

Cheers,
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José A. Romero L.
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