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bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents no longer supported
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:45:48 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0

On 2023-08-11 11:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
This is fine, but I think instead of "act as if REPLACE were nil" we
should explicitly say that the buffer is erased and the file's
contents is inserted.

I'm still a bit lost here. It's news to me that REPLACE being nil means the entire buffer is erased first.

The bigger picture is that I don't know what insert-file-contents is supposed to do in all these complicated circumstances. THat is the various motivations behind insert-file-contents's complex argument combinations don't fully make sense to me. So I'll step aside and let someone more expert fix the doc string, whenever anybody has the time.





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