From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org,
schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: write-region bug ?
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:37:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtv593iz6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k165gbl5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:35:50 +0200")
> I don't think we must imagine a specific scenario to justify
> NON-removal of an old feature, just because someone became confused by
> the doc string. But since you asked...
I'm not suggesting breaking old code, but declaring such use as
non-supported (e.g. mention it in the docstring) and maybe even emit
a warning.
> (write-region 1 1024 "foo")
> (write-region "\nEnd-of-foo\n." nil "foo" t t)
Which is just as naturally written:
(write-region 1 1024 "foo" nil t)
(write-region "\nEnd-of-foo\n." nil "foo" t)
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-05 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-02 16:54 write-region bug ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-01-02 17:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-02 17:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-04 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-04 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 22:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 2:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 5:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 4:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 16:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 3:50 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 5:58 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 15:27 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 0:04 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 0:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-01-09 12:30 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 14:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 23:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-05 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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