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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: write-region bug ?
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 14:58:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvimlr8069.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zhf5ixe1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:25:10 +0200")

>> > → for some reason, the foo.el buffer is now associated to bar.txt
>> You asked for it.
> Indeed, because the VISIT argument of write-region was non-nil, and
> that's what it does.  It's in the documentation.

OTOH, the VISIT argument can't make sense when the text comes from
a string rather than from a buffer.  So maybe we should signal an error
rather than doing something that's clearly wrong.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-04 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-02 16:54 write-region bug ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-01-02 17:22   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-02 17:35     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-04 19:58     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-04 20:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 22:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05  2:01           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05  3:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05  5:14               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 15:20                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05  3:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05  4:54             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 15:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 16:42                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06  3:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06  3:50                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06  5:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06  5:58                         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 15:27                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 16:05                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09  0:04                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09  0:43                                 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-01-09 12:30                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 14:07                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 14:39                                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 17:03                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 23:21                                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 17:37                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 18:26                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:27                     ` Stefan Monnier

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