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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.