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Emacs-28: Inadequate coding in hack-elisp-shorthands

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, joaotavora <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#50946: insert-file-contents can corrupt buffers.
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:19:44 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 20:36:04 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 17:21:35 +0000
> > Cc: joaotavora <at> gmail.com, 50946 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

> > > So the text you propose is too "frightening", in that it basically
> > > says "don't use that".  Which is too tough, because valid use cases to
> > > use that feature do exist, and if the programmer knows what he/she is
> > > doing it doesn't have to produce garbled buffers.  For the manual, we
> > > need more informative text, which mentions coding-system-for-read.

> > OK, how about this third version of my patch?

> LGTM, thanks.

Thanks, I've committed it to the emacs-28 branch.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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