Re: Update filename history after several actions

[Stefan Monnier]

>                                                          In those places
>     where such processing is required, a more preferable way is to insert
>     the contents of a file into a temporary buffer.

> That is definitely true.  However, there are a lot of places to
> change--and it could be a difficult change, in places that alter the
> file and want to be careful not to lose it (places that use
> file-precious-flag).  So I don't think that is a possible solution
> in the short term.

There's also the risk that the user has opened the file by hand with
find-file in which case Emacs shouldn't modify the file without also
updating the corresponding buffer.  find-file-noselect takes care of that.


        Stefan