From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC]: replace-region-contents
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:18:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2covlhe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8sywx141.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:05:57 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:05:57 -0500
>
> I find strings standing for buffers to be ugly and a source of bugs
We could drop the feature of supporting buffer names, but alas, that
ship has sailed. So we are stuck with the current API. If accepting
a string of text is a frequent use case, we could create a wrapper
Lisp function to do that, though.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-03 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 21:20 [RFC]: replace-region-contents Tassilo Horn
2019-02-02 9:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-02-02 13:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-02 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-04 5:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-05 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-05 5:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-05 13:21 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-05 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-05 17:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-06 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-06 17:02 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-06 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-06 18:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-08 16:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-08 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-08 17:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-08 21:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-08 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 22:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-08 22:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-09 0:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-09 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-09 8:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-05 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-06 8:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-06 9:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-02-06 11:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-06 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-05 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-02 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-03 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-03 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-03 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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