Re: write-region bug ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:58:21 -0500
> 
> >> 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.