Recent change of lm-with-file in emacs-lisp/lisp-mnt.el.

[Lute Kamstra]

Hello Richard,

In this change:

2003-09-22  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>

        * emacs-lisp/lisp-mnt.el (lm-with-file):
        Don't visit the file, just use insert-file-contents in temp buffer.

the behavior of lm-with-file was changed from:

  "Make a buffer with FILE current, and execute BODY.  
  If FILE isn't in a buffer, load it in, and kill it after BODY is
  executed."

into:

  "Execute BODY in a buffer containing the contents of FILE.
  If FILE is nil, just return nil."

Before, the current buffer was used when FILE was nil.  So the
behavior changed in that case.  I suppose this was not intentional as
it breaks a lot of things: all the functions in lisp-mnt.el that use
lm-with-file (11 in total) do not work as described in their
docstrings anymore.

Maybe the change can be fixed so that lm-with-file handles FILE == nil
as before?


  Lute.