From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC]: replace-region-contents Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:56:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871s4rqk7u.fsf@gnu.org> <87o97syvno.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="254266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 03:57:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqqv6-00141C-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqqv5-0005HS-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqquw-0005Gz-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:56:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqquw-0002HS-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:60150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqquu-0002GC-Ku; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x152usjX016708; Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 19BEC661CF; Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:56:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87o97syvno.fsf@gnu.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:23:07 +0100") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6475=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6475> : inlines <7011> : streams <1812115> : uri <2790988> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232977 Archived-At: >> Why two functions instead of just one? > You mean by copying the region from the source buffer to the temporary > buffer, and then a single function could act just in there? No, a function which directly returns the text to insert in the form of a string (or a buffer, I guess). > It does refer to `replace-buffer-contents'. Oh, indeed, I see it now, sorry. Stefan