From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 21:37:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83zieocy3c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8337cgee4h.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494182354 5474 195.159.176.226 (7 May 2017 18:39:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 18:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25355@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 07 20:39:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5K-0001Mj-1V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 20:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5P-0007FX-DM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5G-0007FR-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5D-0002Jd-IE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5D-0002JN-Ew for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R5C-0004ca-39 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:39:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25355 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25355-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25355.149418229117707 (code B ref 25355); Sun, 07 May 2017 18:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25355) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 May 2017 18:38:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60660 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R4N-0004bX-He for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37182) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R4L-0004bJ-Gc for 25355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R4D-0001nD-8R for 25355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R4D-0001n5-4Y; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4745 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d7R4A-0006IG-7S; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:38:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 07 May 2017 18:21:35 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:132355 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:21:35 +0000 > Cc: 25355@debbugs.gnu.org > > I guess we can just use the library as-is? It's MIT-licensed. What do you mean by "use"? Treat it as an optional library, like we do with image support and GnuTLS? I thought you wanted this feature to be present in every Emacs, not only Emacs linked against that library. > P.S. Doesn't GNU Diff have code to do this? > > Sure, but it's not a library. Why do you need a library, if you want the code to become part of Emacs? The advantage of Diff is that I think the situation with copyright assignment will be much easier there ;-)