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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 40576@debbugs.gnu.org, Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40576: call-process-region does not accept nil as first argument
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:37:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkSxwzWQTn2Vt9jKwZcc=ivN2LbBYnH-Ey4biXNk84EDvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tv1ok46b.fsf@gnu.org>

Am So., 12. Apr. 2020 um 19:25 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:07:59 +0200
> > Cc: Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com>, 40576@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > We should rather explicitly call out in the docstrings that buffer
> > restrictions are ignored.
>
> But the restrictions aren't ignored.  They are only ignored if START
> is nil.  That makes no sense.

I completely agree that it doesn't make sense. I'm just saying that
the behavior has been there for so long that we realistically can't
change it any more.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-12 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-12 14:25 bug#40576: call-process-region does not accept nil as first argument Pietro Giorgianni
2020-04-12 16:01 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-12 16:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-12 16:44     ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-12 17:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-12 17:09         ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-12 17:07       ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-12 17:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-12 17:37           ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2020-04-12 18:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-12 17:07   ` Philipp Stephani

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