From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 17916@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17916: 24.4.50; `write-region' doc for numeric APPEND arg
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:39:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wqbu1jmy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d50aa5b4-8835-470d-b190-eb664e864bd3@default>
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:14:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> If APPEND is a number, `write-region' seeks to that byte offset from
> the start of the file and writes the data from there.
>
> Because of the word "seek", this will be clear to some programmers, but
> it might not be clear to others. We should make clear that
> `write-region' overwrites existing bytes in the file; it does not insert
> the region text at the given position.
This assumes not only that the reader knows about 'seek', it also
assumes that she has general knowledge about writing to files: there
is no "inserting" stuff in the middle of a file. When you write, you
always overwrite whatever is there. Isn't that common knowledge?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-03 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-03 16:14 bug#17916: 24.4.50; `write-region' doc for numeric APPEND arg Drew Adams
2014-07-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-14 9:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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[not found] ` <<83wqbu1jmy.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-03 17:23 ` Drew Adams
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