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Re: write-region bug ?
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: write-region bug ? |
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Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:50:55 +0900 |
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 12:37, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 01:42:35 +0900
>>
>> Now, I am no insisting that my t value for VISIT is correct, and I don't
>> know where I got the idea of setting it to t. But the fact is that I don't
>> see much value in sending a string to a file and right after it having the
>> file overwritten with the whole buffer where the write-region command was.
>
> It is not an uncommon situation that some feature doesn't look like
> being of much value to us, until we get into a use case where it does.
Indeed.
And I wish I understood better what
(docstring) "the buffer is marked as visiting FILENAME."
(lisp reference) "Emacs establishes an association between the buffer and the
file: the buffer is then visiting that file."
mean practically speaking, because nowhere in those sentences does it imply (to
me) that the buffer contents will overwrite the file.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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