From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `call-process', to a string
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:32:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg6facvz.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831s87lmg0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:10:23 +0200")
On 2018/10/30 at 13:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
>> Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:21:57 +0100
>>
>> > Will the following minor change make that abundantly clear?
>> >
>> > Insert output in buffer DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
>>
>> Yes it does.
>
> Fixed.
>> > (What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
>>
>> In this docstring, it may be interpreted as a filename referred by a
>> string, or something referred by another value (the two-streams list).
>
> "Point" only ever refers to Emacs buffers, never to anything else.
Oh you’re right! Then with some context-sensitive deduction, you would
guess DESTINATION as a buffer.
However having to rely on deduction and context to understand a piece of
doc looks silly, and if it does stuff with buffers it looks better to me
to clearly have the word “buffer” within near. So I believe it is
better with a such fix: thank you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 19:54 Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:08 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:37 ` `with-temp-buffer', `with-output-to-string': `with-temp-buffer-to-string' / `with-current-buffer-to-string' [Was: Re: `call-process', to a string] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 2:26 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 2:25 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 3:59 ` `call-process', to a string Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 7:19 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 10:21 ` `call-process', to a string Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 11:32 ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
2018-10-30 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 13:46 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:44 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 2:25 ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 3:57 ` xdg.el and eww custom load [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:41 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-31 22:52 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 14:29 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-11-01 14:56 ` xdg.el and eww custom load Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 18:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30 7:16 ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Eli Zaretskii
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