From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17916: 24.4.50; `write-region' doc for numeric APPEND arg Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:39:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83wqbu1jmy.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404405689 19228 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2014 16:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17916@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 18:41:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4V-0005rC-Ag for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4U-0003Ms-Vl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4M-0003Lk-0B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4F-0003V8-NK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4F-0003V4-Jj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k4E-0000Ah-7F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:41:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17916 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17916-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17916.1404405624574 (code B ref 17916); Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17916) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Jul 2014 16:40:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41895 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k3Y-000094-0d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:61728) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2k3Q-00008a-DR for 17916@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N8500H009RNTF00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 17916@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:40:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N8500HUNAASOH60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:40:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:91154 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:14:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > 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?