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bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Em
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands] |
Date: |
Sun, 3 Oct 2021 13:33:59 +0000 |
Hello, Eli.
On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 15:40:24 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:10:19 +0000
> > Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, 50946@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
[ .... ]
> > There are bugs in the documentation of insert-file-contents in the
> > elisp manual. It confuses bytes with characters, and it fails to
> > mention the need to keep BEG and END at character boundaries. I
> > propose installing the following patch to the release branch:
> Thanks, I will review this later. However:
> > @@ -580,7 +583,8 @@ Reading from Files
> > This function works like @code{insert-file-contents} except that it
> > does not run @code{after-insert-file-functions}, and does not do
> > format decoding, character code conversion, automatic uncompression,
> > -and so on.
> > +and so on. @var{beg} and @var{end}, if non-@code{nil}, should be at
> > +character boundaries, as in @code{insert-file-contents}.
> > @end defun
> I don't think I understand why you made this second correction:
> insert-file-contents-literally deals with bytes to begin with.
OK, thanks, I think I was mistaken, there. Raw bytes is what we want
from i-f-c-literally. I find this difficult to see from the text in
files.texi. It describes the result in terms of the internal processing
rather than the effect seen by the user. Maybe I could improve that.
> > The doc strings of insert-file-contents\(-literally\)? will also need to
> > be updated.
> In some sense, yes.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, (continued)
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/02
- bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands],
Alan Mackenzie <=
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], João Távora, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], João Távora, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], João Távora, 2021/10/03
- bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers. [Was: bug#50946: Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03