Thanks for your report, Martin. Martin> I've had a look at revert-buffer and nothing jumps out. Martin> I've also had a look at jka-compr.el and I've run away Martin> screaming... I suspect it would be a lot simpler without Martin> all that coding system stuff... :-) The REPLACE semantics of j-c-insert-file-contents were simply wrong. This fixes that, and a couple of minor bugs like the truncated argument list and the missing docstring. It's not really ready for prime time; see the #### comments. However, it's strictly better than the existing code in XEmacs, and jka-compr will probably be obsolete in XEmacs 21.5. Caveat Emacsers. I have no idea whether this is correct for GNU Emacs. Index: xemacs-packages/os-utils/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/os-utils/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -u -U0 -r1.38 ChangeLog --- xemacs-packages/os-utils/ChangeLog 21 Mar 2003 05:51:13 -0000 1.38 +++ xemacs-packages/os-utils/ChangeLog 26 May 2003 09:24:01 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,5 ＠＠ +2003-05-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * jka-compr.el (jka-compr-insert-file-contents): New docstring. + Implement REPLACE argument correctly. + Index: xemacs-packages/os-utils/jka-compr.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/os-utils/jka-compr.el,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 jka-compr.el --- xemacs-packages/os-utils/jka-compr.el 27 Mar 2000 13:11:15 -0000 1.8 +++ xemacs-packages/os-utils/jka-compr.el 26 May 2003 09:24:08 -0000 ＠＠ -517,7 +517,31 ＠＠ ))))) -(defun jka-compr-insert-file-contents (file &optional visit beg end replace) +;; #### Should error or warn if the ignore-me arguments are supplied. +(defun jka-compr-insert-file-contents (file &optional visit beg end replace + ignore-me ignore-me-too) + "Insert contents of FILE in current buffer after point. +Returns list of absolute file name and length of data inserted. + +If second argument VISIT is non-nil, the buffer's visited filename +and last save file modtime are set, and it is marked unmodified. +If visiting and the file does not exist, visiting is completed +before the error is signaled. + +The optional third and fourth arguments START and END +specify what portion of the file to insert. +If VISIT is non-nil, START and END must be nil. +If optional fifth argument REPLACE is non-nil, +it means replace the current buffer contents (in the accessible portion) +with the file contents. This is better than simply deleting and inserting +the whole thing because (1) it preserves some marker positions +and (2) it puts less data in the undo list. (#### Is (2) true?) + +Coding system arguments are completely ignored (see documentation of the +6th and 7th arguments to `insert-file-contents'). The coding system is set +to 'undecided unless `coding-system-for-read' is bound. WARNING: That means +this function is badly broken under Mule. Use jka-compr at your own risk +in Mule Emacsen." (barf-if-buffer-read-only) (and (or beg end) ＠＠ -571,7 +594,7 ＠＠ (progn (if replace - (goto-char (point-min))) + (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))) (setq start (point)) (if (or beg end) (jka-compr-partial-uncompress uncompress-program ＠＠ -595,12 +618,6 ＠＠ t nil uncompress-args))) - (setq size (- (point) start)) - (if replace - (let* ((del-beg (point)) - (del-end (+ del-beg size))) - (delete-region del-beg - (min del-end (point-max))))) (goto-char start)) (error (if (and (eq (car error-code) 'file-error) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

Stephen> The REPLACE semantics of j-c-insert-file-contents were Stephen> simply wrong. Stephen> This fixes that, and a couple of minor bugs [...] Stephen> Caveat Emacsers. I have no idea whether this is correct Stephen> for GNU Emacs. Martin> Party time Emacsers: it does seem to fix the problem in Martin> GNU Emacs 21.3. Yikes, but not when the revert-buffer happens interactively. With the fix, even when you tell revert-buffer not to prompt (via (revert-buffer t t) or by setting revert-without-query), it prompts but refuses to accept 'r' as an answer. I'll play with this and try to figure out what is happening... peace & happiness, martin

Martin> As I've mentioned in a previous message, your patch caused Martin> problems on GNU Emacs when revert-buffer was used Martin> interactively. I also couldn't make it work with XEmacs Martin> (but that may just be stupidity on my part). Hm. I didn't test it properly, I was in something of a hurry. Martin> The patch below, courtesy of RMS, seems to stop the Martin> problem happening on both GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It Martin> doesn't seem to address some of the other issues that your Martin> patch did... The docstring is no big deal, that can be done any time. The apparently useless references to size, ditto. I think rms's patch implements incorrect semantics if (not (= (point) (point-min))); it won't replace the whole buffer. Thanks for passing it on and testing; I'll probably use rms's patch for now. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.