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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-08-07 02:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-08-07 02:43:11 +0000 |
commit | 1193d0613d64bd663bb02777f98bbc9aac4f4b27 (patch) | |
tree | 364e88511f2731b46f541c8e0093f878f6269411 /lisp/files.el | |
parent | 37ec6811edb0d70796e1ce67583bbbec53f6657b (diff) | |
download | emacs-1193d0613d64bd663bb02777f98bbc9aac4f4b27.tar.gz |
(insert-file-contents-literally): Doc fix.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 603195beb7c..5fcaef03406 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -801,14 +801,12 @@ If there is no such live buffer, return nil." found)))) (defun insert-file-contents-literally (filename &optional visit beg end replace) - "Like `insert-file-contents', q.v., but only reads in the file. -A buffer may be modified in several ways after reading into the buffer due -to advanced Emacs features, such as file-name-handlers, format decoding, -find-file-hooks, etc. - This function ensures that none of these modifications will take place. - -This function does not work for remote files, because it turns off -file name handlers and remote file access uses a file name handler." + "Like `insert-file-contents', but only reads in the file literally. +A buffer may be modified in several ways after reading into the buffer, +to Emacs features such as format decoding, character code +conversion, find-file-hooks, automatic uncompression, etc. + +This function ensures that none of these modifications will take place." (let ((format-alist nil) (after-insert-file-functions nil) (coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion) |