GNU bug report logs - #40576
call-process-region does not accept nil as first argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 40576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#40576: call-process-region does not accept nil as first
 argument
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:37:07 +0200

Am So., 12. Apr. 2020 um 19:25 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:07:59 +0200
> > Cc: Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian <at> gmail.com>, 40576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > We should rather explicitly call out in the docstrings that buffer
> > restrictions are ignored.
>
> But the restrictions aren't ignored.  They are only ignored if START
> is nil.  That makes no sense.

I completely agree that it doesn't make sense. I'm just saying that
the behavior has been there for so long that we realistically can't
change it any more.
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