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: write-region bug ? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k169okfu.fsf@igel.home> <83zhf5ixe1.fsf@gnu.org> <83woa7ezzb.fsf@gnu.org> <83r20efua9.fsf@gnu.org> <83k165gbl5.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="67493"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 18:37:25 2020 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 (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1io9q8-000HQl-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 18:37:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43978 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1io9q6-00055d-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1io9pz-00055X-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1io9px-0007IY-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:7217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1io9pw-0007HB-N8; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 7505D1007B5; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 12:37:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 4183C10033A; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 12:37:10 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1578245830; bh=ja/lJWCEE/61gJwmz4fO7C+bSvXgAM+2skvOTxfSI10=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=FGqMl2xPFdGSIX+xONdzPVrEcZz2MOOLP/ijOwG2wMYYKh1+3gaUGzxGqW821yH1y wGpqtzismpOzKD0vLgkPkyP8nsl6LdljqqRTTEdYm7/1DBpma0p32nFgtU/qfIdPxX kvUYi0GAX3rz6cVlni/hPeFwnrJSOSIkY8Z0ugyIPn4v3meMXLi1cfnHHZocvbzhiV oAYe3vBnwHEUVCTNNT//mksm3Fi92KKRdOnFNNByqrxtYhevR4gpw0OqJPGjZuA24q /jmIzkVL407D9QJ/j2tE01501S3wUo2yNC84kf7Ag0MD6/wGPQTttGrQNi7oYuXuo8 1QA7z5OK1YkZA== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [45.72.147.220]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DE8AF120CA4; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 12:37:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83k165gbl5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:35:50 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:243987 Archived-At: > I don't think we must imagine a specific scenario to justify > NON-removal of an old feature, just because someone became confused by > the doc string. But since you asked... I'm not suggesting breaking old code, but declaring such use as non-supported (e.g. mention it in the docstring) and maybe even emit a warning. > (write-region 1 1024 "foo") > (write-region "\nEnd-of-foo\n." nil "foo" t t) Which is just as naturally written: (write-region 1 1024 "foo" nil t) (write-region "\nEnd-of-foo\n." nil "foo" t) -- Stefan