Re: Temporarily select-window, without updating mode-line face and cursor fill?

[martin rudalics]

> Sure, thanks.  I compute line positions at a number of points
> (window-start, window-end, and point-max) inside a mode line :eval
> form.

But `window-start' and `window-end' already provide the buffer positions
you need.  So why do think you have to care about the window after all
and do things like `set-window-start' and `set-window-point' in your
following post?

martin