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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:37:19PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
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> > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:59:57PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
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> > > > The documentation (doc/devel/scheme/edit/edit-model.en.tm) refers
> > > > to the "with-cursor" macro to do something with a temporarily
> > > > different cursor position.
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> > > (import-from (utils library cursor)) did it.
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> > Great ! I didn't even knew that this (potentially
> > very useful) function existed.
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> The import statement defines the macro, but TeXmacs is quite crashy
> when I try to use it. I tried to prepare a minimal file that
> reproduces the crash, but then it started working. Go figure. Maybe
> TeXmacs crashes when you pass an invalid path to with-cursor?
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Yes, of course :-( it crashes when you use an invalid
path, its exactly the same as with (go-to <path>), or
with other function, like (path-assign), for example.

Thus your code must *never* do any error with the paths...