From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: 5618@debbugs.gnu.org, rfrancoise@debian.org
Subject: bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:17:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5o8743c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224055829.GA9795@tomas> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:58:29 +0100")
>> I'm not sure that the installed doc fix for that bug is actually
>> correct. The suggestion in
>>
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/4891#10
>
> Except that in our case, even if it's the current buffer, the whole
> content of the buffer is overwritten as well, rendering the above
> mentioned doc fix incorrect:
>
> "If OUTPUT-BUFFER is not a buffer and not nil,
> insert output in current buffer. (This cannot be done
> asynchronously.) In the latter case, the output is inserted
> after point (leaving mark after it)"
>
> Besides, the behaviour in the current documentation seems way more
> useful (i.e. _not_ erasing the buffer whenever REPLACE is non-nil).
>
> What do you think?
Are you sure that changing its long-time behaviour won't break
some existing packages?
>> seems correct to me.
>
> Half of it, yes, see above.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 9:44 bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer tomas
2010-02-23 18:08 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-24 5:58 ` tomas
2010-02-26 9:17 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-02-26 10:12 ` tomas
2010-03-06 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-27 18:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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