From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: another day of cutting edge Elisp (read from a file to a string)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:33:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1spf4P-0005YQ-EA@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wmjhpfql.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:07:14 +0200)
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I never wrote a function to read a file's contents into a string
because (1) it would not often be useful and (2) Emacs is bloated
already. If we added functions just because they would make sense, we
could add a lot of functions, but that usually would not make Emacs
better.
The reason it is not often useful is that usually when you read a file
having the contents in a buffer makes it convenient to operate on them.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-12 6:07 another day of cutting edge Elisp (read from a file to a string) Emanuel Berg
2024-09-12 7:09 ` is OO a model that makes models? (was: Re: another day of cutting edge Elisp (read from a file to a string)) Emanuel Berg
2024-09-15 2:33 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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