Re: undo weirdness with insert-file-contents

[Stefan Monnier]

> martin, who still considers the non-VISIT&REPLACE case obscure and
> cannot see any "example" in `smerge-resolve'.

Ahem... sorry, it's in the part of smerge-resolve that I haven't
yet installed.  Basically what it does is this:

given a 3-way merge conflict, with 3 branches MINE/BASE/OTHER, I do
a narrow-to-region on the conflict, then I save all three branches of
the conflict to separate files and do:

   diff -c -w BASE MINE | patch OTHER >RESULT

and if the patch succeeds I do `insert-file-contents' of RESULT without
VISIT but with REPLACE.

It's indeed somewhat obscure, and indeed, it crashed Emacs when the
Unicode branch was merged (because the code didn't expect REPLACE in
a narrowed buffer).


        Stefan