From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: url-insert-file-contents
Date: 22 Apr 1997 10:36:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wwpv6jt6.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Tony Bennett's message of Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
Tony Bennett <tbennett@chapelhill.hp.com> writes:
> William> url-insert-file-contents has not changed in ages. It has always
> William> returned:
>
> William> (kill-buffer url-working-buffer)
>
> William> docs for kill-buffer say:
> William> Value is t if the buffer is actually killed, nil if user says no.
>
> My XEmacs 19.15 kill-buffer returns nil on success. But I just noticed
> it has following note in docstring, so gnuserv is overriding at least
> some its behavior:
>
> NOTE: This function has been enhanced to allow for remote editing
> in the following way:
>
> ...
The correc thing to do is not rely on the return value of
url-insert-file-contents. I did not intend for there to be any semantics
for its return value at all.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-04-22 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-19 3:14 url-insert-file-contents Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-22 14:54 ` url-insert-file-contents William M. Perry
1997-04-22 15:12 ` url-insert-file-contents Jan Vroonhof
1997-04-22 16:20 ` url-insert-file-contents Tony Bennett
1997-04-22 17:36 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-04-24 12:05 ` url-insert-file-contents Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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