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[PATCH] (Finsert_file_contents): Refine commit d07af40d8826

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 78866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78866: [PATCH] (Finsert_file_contents): Refine commit d07af40d8826
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:44:08 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 78866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:38:14 -0400
> 
> > I agree that we should prompt, but I don't understand the logic behind
> > the proposed solution.  Why is it OK not to prompt when VISIT is
> > non-nil?  It is true that in that case we will be reading from
> > FILENAME, but the contents after the insertion will not necessarily be
> > identical to FILENAME, because not necessarily the entire contents of
> > the buffer is erased.
> 
> If VISIT is non-nil, then REPLACE is also non-nil (or irrelevant
> because the buffer is empty):
> 
>     if (!NILP (visit))
>       {
>         if (!NILP (beg) || !NILP (end))
>           error ("Attempt to visit less than an entire file");
>         if (BEG < Z && NILP (replace))
>           error ("Cannot do file visiting in a non-empty buffer");
>       }

Sure, but REPLACE replaces only the accessible portion of the buffert,
not all of it.

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