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Re: Survival strategies for markers?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Survival strategies for markers? |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:18:51 +0200 |
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Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi List,
>
> when markers are exposed to extreme conditions
>
> - copy buffer substring (with marker m) from buffer A to temporary
> - buffer B
> - modify buffer content in B
> - change major mode in B
>
> how do they survive?
>
> Or, more prosaic, can I do these things and somehow copy (bufferlocal?)
> m from A to B, or do I have to take an indirect approach remembering m's
> position in A in a global var and set a new marker at that position in
> B (or so)?
The later.
Markers are independent objects, they're not embedded in strings.
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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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