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Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no f
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:53:01 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:02:20 -0800
>
> I still think it could also help to make clear more of the things that `i-f-c'
> inhibits, whether it is file handlers or hooks or file-local variables or
> respect of `auto-mode-alist' or whatever.
I have now added to the doc string of insert-file-contents a reference
to format-decode. The only other non-trivial thing that
insert-file-contents does is invoke the file handlers, but that is
done by any file primitive we have, so it doesn't make sense to
mention it only in insert-file-contents. IOW, the fact that file
handlers are invoked is "trivial".
> In particular, it would help users if you make clear how using `i-f-c' (e.g.
> with non-nil VISIT) differs from using `find-file-noselect'.
>
> That would make it easier for users to choose & use these functions. All the
> more so since `i-f-c' is coded in C and that code is likely to be absent.
This could be ELisp manual stuff, I don't think it's appropriate for a
doc string (revision 111051 on the emacs-24 branch).
The ELisp manual already says something about it, in the node
"Visiting Functions":
This section describes the functions normally used to visit files. For
historical reasons, these functions have names starting with `find-'
rather than `visit-'. *Note Buffer File Name::, for functions and
variables that access the visited file name of a buffer or that find an
existing buffer by its visited file name.
In a Lisp program, if you want to look at the contents of a file but
not alter it, the fastest way is to use `insert-file-contents' in a
temporary buffer. Visiting the file is not necessary and takes longer.
*Note Reading from Files::.
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, (continued)
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/20
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/20
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/20
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/20
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/20
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/20
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/20
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/20
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/20
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/22
- RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Drew Adams, 2012/12/21
- Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/21