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bug#19576: write-file writes the wrong buffer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19576: write-file writes the wrong buffer |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:32:28 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:22:15 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: andlind@gmail.com, 19576@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> People who put their functions on ‘window-size-change-functions’ and
> >> ‘window-configuration-change-hook’ usually don't care about the precise
> >> reason why these function get called. They simply want to cover all
> >> cases where a new window appears or a specific window changes size. Do
> >> we really expect them to add a ‘save-window-excursion’ in one case and
> >> avoid it in the other because it would mean unnecessary extra work?
> >
> > Yes, we do. Hooks called by the display engine should be coded very
> > carefully, because they are a large part of that proverbial rope that
> > Emacs gives us to hang ourselves. If they don't write those hooks
> > with great care, they get what they deserve.
>
> People do care. But how would they know that in one case we save all
> sorts of things while we don't in the other.
They don't need to. We won't tell them that we do that even in a
single case.
> At least the OP got what he deserved: Waiting one year for being told
> that the bug he reported is his own fault.
Yes, our bug-handling routine can and should be improved. I'm sorry
he had to wait for so long. To be fair, the original report already
put the blame squarely on installing a "broken window size change
function", so I don't think what I wrote here 10 months later is a
revelation of any kind.
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