Avoid dubious uses of save-excursions.

* doc/lispref/positions.texi (Excursions): Recommend the use of
save-current-buffer if applicable.
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Clickable Text): Fix the example code which used
save-excursion in a naive way which sometimes preserves point and
sometimes not.
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (Creating Buffer-Local):
* doc/lispref/os.texi (Session Management):
* doc/lispref/display.texi (GIF Images):
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Cleanups): Use (save|with)-current-buffer.
* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Posting Styles): Use with-current-buffer.
* doc/misc/calc.texi (Defining Simple Commands): Prefer save-current-buffer.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index e7467c20d25..6dfc203f638 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2010-01-04  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        Avoid dubious uses of save-excursions.
+        * positions.texi (Excursions): Recommend the use of
+        save-current-buffer if applicable.
+        * text.texi (Clickable Text): Fix the example code which used
+        save-excursion in a naive way which sometimes preserves point and
+        sometimes not.
+        * variables.texi (Creating Buffer-Local):
+        * os.texi (Session Management):
+        * display.texi (GIF Images):
+        * control.texi (Cleanups): Use (save|with)-current-buffer.
+
 2010-01-02  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * modes.texi (Example Major Modes): Fix indentation.  (Bug#5195)
@@ -8375,7 +8388,7 @@
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