From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1939: suggestion: adding read-line function to elisp Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:48:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <421D26F9-3257-44EE-97B0-A7276A97AD73@xahlee.org> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero , 1939@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232258633 7519 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2009 06:03:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1939@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: xah lee Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 07:05:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LOQmK-0004vu-6F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:05:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOQl2-0002CH-Vi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOQkx-0002B0-L7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOQkv-0002Ai-SE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50508 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOQkv-0002Ad-Ow for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:46138) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOQkv-0003OS-5h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0I63RDC001414; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:03:27 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0I5t4nA031389; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:55:04 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Juanma Barranquero Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:55:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1939 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1939-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1939.123225769529748 (code B ref 1939); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:55:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1939) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 18 Jan 2009 05:48:15 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0I5mBbJ029739 for <1939@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:48:12 -0800 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 30so294676nfu.31 for <1939@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:48:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wqckOvR6FuAmrKW8Gi6usSAXjL1ViNabIvXNO5bbUiM=; b=RnAfSfPPleXnFfXFqhqV2uZn5L9sDRMLmjylDv/g7BdHkj2p2WeKwDYYnBAJO2fq/q +nOq4HZmdfqZVxXRWT2p0J/zsLHtScUEPy7NHu99jv/rcHnjiTHuhbhxdJHc8SZ935VT FyAcvmCz2Um0sT0XlzfliCgIiO0rlliPoVVys= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cx3w/cypi14kfmgaZYb1w/bD4PBh5+IdZS4jvi1S9jkAXt7+Yf5E7S06ZE51tHNR/u xaHh57HmUiQ8OGwbs6+ivvqyOpc/j43B3+BMKrYNAecRzMF58SOx6IuFL3+nb2jRSjVl LgxnU0B1ly4YPGsdB7gJ1IGFH+sLtTYnTAb7Q= Original-Received: by 10.210.69.6 with SMTP id r6mr80895eba.83.1232257690542; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:48:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <421D26F9-3257-44EE-97B0-A7276A97AD73@xahlee.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:35 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24247 Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 19:13, xah lee wrote: > Getting lines as list is a very frequent need. > > elisp is very suitable for tasks of text processing. So, having such a > convenience function seems appropriate. Getting lines as list is much less frequent in elisp. The reason is that is much more flexible (and faster) to manipulate text in a buffer than as a collection of strings. So in most cases, using `with-temp-buffer' (as in your read-lines function) is the Right Thing To Do. Juanma