Re: insert-file-contents and format-decode

[Richard Stallman]

    We have a plan for dealing with functions called by `format-decode'.  We
    do not have a plan yet for dealing with `after-insert-file-functions'.
    Shall we treat functions there the same way we treat functions called by
    `format-decode'?

If it's good for one, it's probably good for the other.  Consistency
between the two features is also good.

Do you see any reason NOT to do so?

    When I insert the contents of a file with `visit-flag' nil the buffer
    should be reasonably narrowed to work only on the inserted text as in
    `decode-coding-inserted-region'.  Currently, neither `format-alist' nor
    `after-insert-file-functions' handling provides such a service.  The
    functions there are supposed to do the narrowing themselves.

Perhaps it would be convenient to narrow around the call to
the `after-insert-file-functions'.  This would not contradict the
established calling convention.

If we want to narrow around format conversion functions, the place
to do that is inside format.el.