Re: 4 minor suggestions for files.el

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    Huh?  It works just dandy here.  The undo-log is correct (and has
    the necessary entries corresponding to the insert-file operation).
    The only real issue is not correctness but performance: the undo-log
    might contain a very large string (if the insert-file operation had to
    modify a large part of the buffer).

I think I understand now--it treats the insert-file operation as an
ordinary undoable buffer change.

Spiegel, is that really the right thing to do in VC?

I also worry about the large strings.  Maybe there should be a file
size threshold on this change.

    I was wondering if it would be worth it to try and make insert-file
    even more clever: pass the `before' and `after' to diff and then apply
    the diff by hand.  This will preserve even more of the markers
    (and would make the undo-log smaller and more useful, in the case
    that revert-buffer doesn't flush it).

That is a very interesting idea.  Perhaps diff could have an output
format designed to give the best possible results with Emacs, and
for the highest efficiency.