Questions tagged [excursion]

So buffer-string gets the content of the current buffer. But it doesn't allow specifying other buffers. How can I get around that? Do I need something like save-window-excursion to make it work?

Q: How do I find the visual line number of point (so that I can restore it after an operation)? By “visual line number”, I'm referring to the number N of lines between the top of the window (or the screen) and the cursor, not the top of the…