Re: Is with-temp-buffer really temporary?

[Jean Louis]

* Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [2021-04-26 22:59]:
> > I wish to use Emacs to accept file online and file should enter memory
> > and memory should be deleted thereafter.
> > Thus, if I use with-temp-buffer function, how sure is it that anything
> > that as in temporary buffer is not any more in the memory of computer?
> 
> Emacs Lisp does not "scrape" the memory that it stops using.
> IIRC the only kind of scraping offered is what you get with
> `clear-string` and AFAIK we have nothing equivalent for buffer text.

Also good to know.

And if Emacs exits, finishes the process, is memory then scraped?


-- 
Jean

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