Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 255a011: Add `save-mark-and-excursion', which has the old `save-excursion' behavior

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is always a marker, isn't it?

I think so, yes.

> Some other parts of simple.el assume it always returns non-nil.
> I'll remove the nil check.

Good, thanks.

>> IIUC activate-mark-hook should also be run when (eq omark nmark) but
>> cur-mark-active was nil.
> Huh.  I just mechanically translated the original save-excursion C code.

Ah, you're probably right: the save-excursion code had such kinds of problems.

> I'll change the code to match the comment.

Thanks,


        Stefan