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Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no f


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:47:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> I cannot prescribe what I do not know.  I can see that the doc for
> `mm-i-f-c' mentions "file handlers, format decoding, `find-file-hook',
> etc", specifically to _distinguish_ itself from `i-f-c'.

> The `mm-i-f-c' doc says that it differs from `i-f-c' in that
> `mm-i-f-c' "only reads in the file".  The implication is that `i-f-c'
> does more than just read in the file.  What more, for instance?

That points to a problem in mm-i-f-c's docstring, not in i-f-c.
You can't realistically expect i-f-c to confirm or deny every implied
consequence of the docstring of every foo-insert-file-content out there.


        Stefan



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