Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Richard Stallman]

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  > It would be nice to organize all the file-related functions
  > better. Currently all the file-xx, file-name-xx, directory-xx
  > names are not the easiest to find.

What is the difficulty?  Doesn't M-x apropos RET ^file RET do it?

There may be some important context I can't get from your message.

  > (defun file-content (file)
  >   (with-temp-buffer
  >     (insert-file-contents file)
  >     (buffer-substring-no-properties)))

I think he name should be file-contents, plural.  The text in the file
is its "contents".

If people often want this, we can certainly add it.
It is just a question of how often programmers want it.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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