From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 65156@debbugs.gnu.org, mail@lucaswerkmeister.de
Subject: bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents no longer supported
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 23:08:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6755e91e-1318-8ca8-33e4-30d354d95a2f@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ttt7jx1m.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2023-08-09 22:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If REPLACE is the symbol ‘if-regular’, then eschew preserving marker
> positions or the undo list if REPLACE is nil if FILENAME is not a
> regular file. Otherwise, signal an error if REPLACE is non-nil and
> FILENAME is not a regular file.
>
> Which part(s) of this are unclear?
In "If REPLACE is the symbol 'if-regular', then <X> if REPLACE is nil if
<Y>. Otherwise, ..." I don't know what the first sentence means. The "if
REPLACE is nil" seems to contradict the "If REPLACE is the symbol
'if-regular'" and the relationship between <X> and <Y> is unclear.
Nor do I know which "if" the "Otherwise" is referring to.
Nor is it easy to see how this paragraph connects to the previous one,
the one that begins "If optional fifth argument REPLACE is non-nil" and
that goes on to say "When REPLACE is non-nil" as if the second phrase
were not redundant (so which part of that paragraph talks about what
happens when REPLACE being nil?).
It's understandable that the doc string is a mess, since the code is
messier. (Yes, this is the peanut gallery talking....)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-10 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-08 18:20 bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents no longer supported Lucas Werkmeister
2023-08-08 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-08 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 2:47 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-09 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 20:57 ` Paul Eggert
2023-08-10 5:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-10 6:08 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2023-08-10 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-11 17:18 ` Paul Eggert
2023-08-11 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-11 21:45 ` Paul Eggert
2023-08-12 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-12 8:58 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-09 8:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-09 8:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-09 8:29 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-09 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 12:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=6755e91e-1318-8ca8-33e4-30d354d95a2f@cs.ucla.edu \
--to=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
--cc=65156@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
--cc=mail@lucaswerkmeister.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.