* Naming of ‘append-to-buffer’
@ 2018-06-24 6:51 Andreas Röhler
2018-06-24 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Andreas Röhler @ 2018-06-24 6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs Devel
Docstring mentions substring from old buffer "is inserted into that
buffer before its point". But the meaning of "append" is a different
one. IMO the current behavior might be expressed as ‘copy-to-buffer’ or
‘insert-in-buffer’, as copy-... is taken already. OTOH would appreciate
to have a reliable append, i.e. insert at the EOB.
Cheers,
Andreas
GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of
2018-05-29
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* Re: Naming of ‘append-to-buffer’
2018-06-24 6:51 Naming of ‘append-to-buffer’ Andreas Röhler
@ 2018-06-24 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2018-06-24 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Röhler; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:51:10 +0200
>
> Docstring mentions substring from old buffer "is inserted into that
> buffer before its point". But the meaning of "append" is a different
> one. IMO the current behavior might be expressed as ‘copy-to-buffer’ or
> ‘insert-in-buffer’, as copy-... is taken already. OTOH would appreciate
> to have a reliable append, i.e. insert at the EOB.
Emacs behaved like that since day one, so renaming the command now
would be unthinkable, IMO. And there's an expanded explanation in the
user manual why the name makes (some) sense.
Thanks.
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