Magnus Henoch writes:
> This patch has been sitting in my tree for a while... It's a fix to
> org-map-dblocks, to make it use save-excursion instead of remembering
> position values. I need this since I have a dblock function that
> asynchronously updates dblocks from HTTP responses, and some dblocks
> ended up getting updated twice or thrice.
[...]
> My dblock-write function calls url-retrieve, to asynchronously retrieve an
> HTML page. The callback function I pass to url-retrieve will then fill
> in the information I need into the dynamic block.
>
> So in the following case:
>
> * Find start of dblock 1, store as pos
> * Make HTTP request for dblock 1
> * Go back to pos
> * Find end of dblock 1
> * Find start of dblock 2, store as pos
> * Make HTTP request for dblock 2
> * Asynchronous event: HTTP response for dblock 1 arrives, insert lots of
> data in dblock 1
> * Go back to pos
> * Find end of dblock 2
>
> the last step will actually find the end of dblock 1, if the amount of
> data inserted in dblock 1 is great enough that pos suddenly points
> inside it. (Then it will of course find dblock 2 again, request its HTML
> page again, and thus insert the data twice.)
>
> An equivalent fix would be to make pos a marker instead.
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