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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: 5618@debbugs.gnu.org, rfrancoise@debian.org
Subject: bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:17:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5o8743c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224055829.GA9795@tomas> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:58:29 +0100")

>> I'm not sure that the installed doc fix for that bug is actually
>> correct. The suggestion in
>>
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/4891#10
>
> Except that in our case, even if it's the current buffer, the whole
> content of the buffer is overwritten as well, rendering the above
> mentioned doc fix incorrect:
>
>     "If OUTPUT-BUFFER is not a buffer and not nil,
>        insert output in current buffer.  (This cannot be done
>        asynchronously.)  In the latter case, the output is inserted
>        after point (leaving mark after it)"
>
> Besides, the behaviour in the current documentation seems way more
> useful (i.e. _not_ erasing the buffer whenever REPLACE is non-nil).
>
> What do you think?

Are you sure that changing its long-time behaviour won't break
some existing packages?

>> seems correct to me.
>
> Half of it, yes, see above.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/






  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-22  9:44 bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer tomas
2010-02-23 18:08 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-24  5:58   ` tomas
2010-02-26  9:17     ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-02-26 10:12       ` tomas
2010-03-06 17:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-27 18:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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