From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: 22096@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 11:06:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2osop6p.fsf@udel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvtpfezh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:59:14 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:19:32 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 22096@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
>> > (info "(elisp) Reading from Files") suggests I should be able to read
>> > from a FIFO.
>>
>> I guess you mean this part:
>>
>> It is possible to read a special file (such as a FIFO or an I/O
>> device) with `insert-file-contents', as long as REPLACE and VISIT
>> are `nil'.
>>
>> It seems this is no longer true, and we have to fix the manual to that
>> effect.
>
> Or maybe that text just gets the value of VISIT wrong: the code in
> question is very old, and always signaled an error for non-regular
> files when VISIT is nil.
Supposedly (according to the docstring) BEG and END have to be nil if
VISIT is t, so I should probably be getting an error about supplying
invalid arguments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-05 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-04 17:40 bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display Mark Oteiza
2015-12-05 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 16:06 ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2015-12-05 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 15:58 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-05 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 17:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-05 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 17:35 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-05 18:29 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-05 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 20:58 ` Mark Oteiza
2020-08-31 2:11 ` Stefan Kangas
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