From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC]: replace-region-contents Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:59:41 +0200 Message-ID: <835zu0x3pu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871s4rqk7u.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="66014"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 17:00:10 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 1gqKBl-000H36-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:00:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqKBk-0003H9-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqKBe-0003Gm-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:00:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqKBc-00034c-L9; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2474 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gqKBY-0002EA-Qq; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:59:58 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:17:12 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232933 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:17:12 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > PS: I wish replace-buffer-contents interpreted a string as the text to > use as replacement rather than as a buffer name You'd need to insert the string into a buffer anyway, before you could run the code, so might as well do that in Lisp. (I find text processing based on strings a bad idea in Emacs, btw. Buffers are much more convenient and efficient.)