Re: [RFC]: replace-region-contents

[Stefan Monnier]

>       (atomic-change-group

Why?  AFAICT only replace-buffer-contents modifies the buffer and it
only does it atomically.

> The current buffer is narrowed to the region between BEG and END,
> then EXTRACT-FN is called in order to extract some value.
> Thereafter, INJECT-FN is called with that value in a temporary
> buffer which it should populate.

Why 2 separate functions?


        Stefan


PS: I wish replace-buffer-contents interpreted a string as the text to
use as replacement rather than as a buffer name (which I find almost
always to be a misfeature: better call `get-buffer` explicitly when we
need to convert a string to a buffer).  I think we should start by
deprecating this "can be a buffer name" usage ASAP.