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This is becoming obscene!  It seems that Emacs 20 will break every
single piece of Lisp code.

All praise Ben!

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From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
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Subject: Re: New version of emacs?
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* Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
| Does `(goto-char (+ (point) 3))' possibly land you in the middle of
| prefix byte codes, or are buffers different in this respect?

no, buffers are just the same as strings, except that `forward-char' etc
work on characters.

to calculate with point, use `forward-point'.  it works as if it were
defined like this:

    (defun forward-point (n)
      (let ((point (point)))
	(prog2
	    (forward-char n)
	    (point)
	  (goto-char point))))

except it doesn't call point-motion hooks and all that stuff.

#\Erik
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