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bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#5618: 23.1.91; shell-command-on-region unexpectedly erases buffer |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:17:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> 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.
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Juri Linkov
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