From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5E2DA7EF-D0F1-4B0C-A3DC-F0B64FE2FE00@gmail.com> <13170DB6-B7A1-4843-AAF5-AB68B65D2331@gmail.com> <18370.18434.78349.822958@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200802261813.m1QIDEku015891@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802261848.m1QImEag004425@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204128545 5926 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 16:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, mail.vjrao@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 17:09:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUOqN-000415-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:09:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUOpq-0003Kl-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:08:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUOoN-0002cI-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUOoJ-0002YM-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUOoI-0002YD-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUOoI-0003bs-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JUOoH-0003jo-4V; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <200802261848.m1QImEag004425@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:48:14 -0800) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90621 Archived-At: If the problem is the undo-list, then we can change insert-file-contents to not clear the buffer-undo-list in the case where it did make any changes to the buffer. I think this should not be the normal case for insert-file-contents, when VISIT = nil. Rather, it should be a special option to be used in particular cases like this. Perhaps visit = vc?