From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, 50646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50646: 28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:53:48 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23b323a6af5c91a665890b4cb5d3ba61@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o88o4v53.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2021-09-20 00:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Then I suggest to mention insert-file-contents and other functions
> (if any) that do this explicitly.
Sounds sensible. The pre-existing mention of `find-file-hook' means
(AFAIK) that we're already talking about more than just the two
'insert-file-contents*' functions. The set of notable functions that
I know of are:
- find-file
- find-file-literally
- insert-file-contents
- insert-file-contents-literally
- insert-file
- insert-file-literally
The latter two are for interactive usage only (but analogous to the
insert-file-contents* functions, so maybe their docstrings should be
looked at too, for consistency).
For the `insert-file-contents-literally' docstring perhaps we just
need to add an explicit mention of `find-file'?
> Something like
> This is contrary to other functions, like `insert-file-contents',
> which may modify a buffer in several ways after ...
I now have this:
"Like `insert-file-contents', but only reads in the file literally.
See `insert-file-contents' for an explanation of the parameters.
Insert after point the contents of file FILENAME as a sequence of
ASCII characters with no special encoding or conversion.
This is contrary to other functions, like `insert-file-contents' and
`find-file', which may modify a buffer in several ways after reading
into the buffer, due to Emacs features such as format decoding,
character code conversion, `find-file-hook', automatic uncompression,
etc.
Using `insert-file-contents-literally' ensures that none of these
modifications will take place."
I took "as a sequence of ASCII characters with no special encoding or
conversion" from (info "(emacs) Visiting") but I see that wording used
by `insert-file-literally' is "Insert contents of file FILENAME into
buffer after point with no conversion", and I figure the two should
probably use the same wording? Is there a preference?
-Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-19 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 17:06 bug#50646: 28.0.50; narrow-to-defun sometimes narrows to wrong defun arthur.miller
2021-09-18 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 17:27 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-18 18:34 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 8:34 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 3:41 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 6:36 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 10:56 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 20:02 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 8:33 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-19 10:04 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 12:06 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 12:53 ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-09-19 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 14:21 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-19 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 15:25 ` bug#50646: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-19 19:57 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 6:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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