Subject: bug#462: closed (Re: bug#462: append-region-to-file as alias for append-to-file)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:35:02 +0000

Your bug report

#462: append-region-to-file as alias for append-to-file

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#462: append-region-to-file as alias for append-to-file
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:34:02 -0400
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I don't see a need to keep open this particular report, which was marked
"wontfix" some time ago.

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Currently the shorter name is more convenient, the docstring is
> sufficiently clear, as is the prompt, so there's little opportunity
> for confusion, especially since most commands in Emacs operate
> "at/around point" or "on the region".

>From [email-masked] Sat Jun 21 16:59:37 2008
To: [email-masked]
Subject: append-region-to-file as alias for append-to-file
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:47:23 +0800

  append-to-file is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `files.el'.
  Append the contents of the region to the end of file FILENAME.

OK, then call it append-region-to-file, as an alias, as append-to-file
might mean append-file-to-file, you never know.