Subject: bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:27:46 +0300

> From: Karl Fogel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:41:52 -0500
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>, Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked]
> 
> This way we would still use `write-region' and avoid visiting the file.

Why do we have to keep to use write-region?

> Even though we don't know exactly why Richard made the original motivating change (commit cfde584f6d, see [b] below), there was some problem with `write-file' -- so we shouldn't just go back to that, because a regression would be likely.

You already had this discussion with Richard back then, see

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-05/msg01376.html

If what Richard wrote in response is not clear enough, we can ask him
to try to elaborate.