From: utzoo!utcsrgv!kramer Newsgroups: net.emacs Title: problem with marks Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.939 Posted: Fri Jan 28 11:09:41 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 16:47:51 1983 There seems to be an inconsistancy in Gosling's emacs concerning the mark data type. Suppose at the end of a buffer the following mlisp is executed: (set-mark) (setq x (mark)) If text is added (say as a result of a process execution), the mark continues to point at the end of the buffer, but the value of x does not.