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From: allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is there a cleaner way to check for a narrowed buffer?
Summary: Won't work:  my region is from the beginning to the middle of the
	 buffer!
Keywords: GNU Emacs narrow-to-region
Message-ID: <141@axcess.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 12:37:47 GMT
References: <138@axcess.UUCP> <2336@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: aXcess Company, Mentor, Ohio
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In article <2336@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
+---------------
| In article <138@axcess.UUCP> allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| >I have a function which wants to narrow the current buffer to a region if
| >it is not already narrowed. [...] but why isn't
| >some special function provided ( (narrowp) or something ) to do this?
| 
| (defun narowp () 
| "Return t if buffer is narrowed."
|   (/= 1 (point-min)))
+---------------

Nice try, but if you've seen my Yacc/Bison mode for Emacs, you might notice
that the first thing it does is narrow to the first two sections of a file
(i.e. make the pure C code at the end of the file invisible).  So (point-min)
will return 1 regardless.
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