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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `call-process', to a string
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:10:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s87lmg0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3afivju.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu>

> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:21:57 +0100
> 
> > Will the following minor change make that abundantly clear?
> >
> >  Insert output in buffer DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
> 
> Yes it does.

Fixed.

> > (What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
> 
> In this docstring, it may be interpreted as a filename referred by a
> string, or something referred by another value (the two-streams list).

"Point" only ever refers to Emacs buffers, never to anything else.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-29 19:54 Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:08 ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29 20:37   ` `with-temp-buffer', `with-output-to-string': `with-temp-buffer-to-string' / `with-current-buffer-to-string' [Was: Re: `call-process', to a string] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30  2:26     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30  2:25   ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30  3:59     ` `call-process', to a string Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30  7:19     ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 10:21       ` `call-process', to a string Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 11:10         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-30 11:32           ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-30 12:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 13:46               ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:44       ` `call-process', to a string [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30  6:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30  2:25 ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30  3:57   ` xdg.el and eww custom load [Was: Re: Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 12:41     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-31 22:52       ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 14:29         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-11-01 14:56           ` xdg.el and eww custom load Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-01 18:54             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-10-30  7:16   ` Automatically set eww-download-directory according xdg dir Eli Zaretskii

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