Document buffer-swap-text+save-excursion interaction

* doc/lispref/buffers.texi (Swapping Text):
* src/buffer.c (Fbuffer_swap_text): Add warning about interaction of
`buffer-swap-text' and `save-excursion' (Bug #4655).
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Noam Postavsky 2016-07-10 21:52:23 -04:00
parent 452aa949bc
commit 9ba51edf62
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@ -1211,6 +1211,12 @@ swapped as well: the positions of point and mark, all the markers, the
overlays, the text properties, the undo list, the value of the
@code{enable-multibyte-characters} flag (@pxref{Text Representations,
enable-multibyte-characters}), etc.
@strong{Warning:} If this function is called from within a
@code{save-excursion} form, the current buffer will be set to
@var{buffer} upon leaving the form, since the marker used by
@code{save-excursion} to save the position and buffer will be swapped
as well.
@end defun
If you use @code{buffer-swap-text} on a file-visiting buffer, you

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@ -2231,7 +2231,9 @@ advance_to_char_boundary (ptrdiff_t byte_pos)
DEFUN ("buffer-swap-text", Fbuffer_swap_text, Sbuffer_swap_text,
1, 1, 0,
doc: /* Swap the text between current buffer and BUFFER. */)
doc: /* Swap the text between current buffer and BUFFER.
Using this function from `save-excursion' might produce surprising
results, see Info node `(elisp)Swapping Text'. */)
(Lisp_Object buffer)
{
struct buffer *other_buffer;