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bug#18823: Built-in support for visiting compressed files
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#18823: Built-in support for visiting compressed files |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:05:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> To insert text, you must make the buffer into which you insert be the
> current buffer. That's how the low-level insertion primitives work.
> So what will insert-into-buffer do that is different (and more
> efficient) than the contortion you need to do now, which involves
> temporary switch to the target buffer?
It just does the contortion for you.
This sort of thing comes up mostly when doing stuff with temporary
buffers, so I wonder whether we should consider adding a special form
for it. That is, something like `with-temp-buffer-and-insert' that
would work identically as `with-temp-buffer', but insert the contents of
the buffer into the current buffer before killing the temporary
buffer...
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