Re: save-excursion doesn't save point?

[Miles Bader]

paul.stoeber@stud.tu-ilmenau.de (Paul Stoeber) writes:
> ;; Point has changed, but shuffle-lines has only one body form, which
> ;; is a save-excursion form.  Is that supposed to happen?

Yes.

save-excursion doesn't work by saving a character number, but setting a
marker at the old point-location, and restoring to the marker later.

If you insert or delete text adjacent to a marker, it will end up shoved
to one side or the other -- and transpose-lines works by deleting and
inserting.

-Miles
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