History of 2016-01-16 save-excursion changed semantics

2016-01-18
22:04 UTC Revision 3 . . . . Marcin Borkowski+edit (minor)
2016-01-16
21:33 UTC Revision 1 . . . . Marcin BorkowskiRecently, when coding on a new Emacs (compiled from source), I stumbled upon a strange behavior of save-excursion: it didn’t restore the mark status. I was quite sure that it should do that, but – for lack of better ideas – I C-h f‘d it. And here is what I learned...