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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:47:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhangoyv6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E912F79068C4D81A99CB0BCD286D970@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:47:08 -0800")

> I cannot prescribe what I do not know.  I can see that the doc for
> `mm-i-f-c' mentions "file handlers, format decoding, `find-file-hook',
> etc", specifically to _distinguish_ itself from `i-f-c'.

> The `mm-i-f-c' doc says that it differs from `i-f-c' in that
> `mm-i-f-c' "only reads in the file".  The implication is that `i-f-c'
> does more than just read in the file.  What more, for instance?

That points to a problem in mm-i-f-c's docstring, not in i-f-c.
You can't realistically expect i-f-c to confirm or deny every implied
consequence of the docstring of every foo-insert-file-content out there.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-20 18:57 search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars Drew Adams
2012-12-20 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 19:42   ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 21:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 22:01       ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  8:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 21:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-20 22:01       ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 22:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-20 22:47           ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  3:47             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-21  4:02               ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  4:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 11:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 16:13                   ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  8:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 14:44               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 15:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-22 16:00                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 16:12                 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21  8:39         ` Eli Zaretskii

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