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Re: write-region bug ?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: write-region bug ? |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Jan 2020 23:54:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> OTOH, the VISIT argument can't make sense when the text comes from
>> >> a string rather than from a buffer.
>> > Why does it not make sense? FILENAME is still provided.
>> VISIT basically tells that the buffer should be considered as
>> visiting FILENAME. Here, we have VISIT and FILENAME but we don't have
>> the buffer (except that by accident).
>
> I don't think it's up to us to second-guess the caller, whether this
> is an accident or not. I can envision legitimate use cases where this
> can be useful.
I can entertain the idea that some package out there somehow calls
write-region with a non-nil `visit` and a string as `start`, but I'm
hard pressed to imagine a case where this is useful.
What kind of scenario do you have in mind?
Stefan
- Re: write-region bug ?, (continued)
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/02
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/02
- Re: write-region bug ?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/04
- Re: write-region bug ?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/05
- Re: write-region bug ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/06
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/06
- Re: write-region bug ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/01/08