> 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
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