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Re: The real difference between get-buffer-create and with-output-to-tem
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Heime |
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Re: The real difference between get-buffer-create and with-output-to-temp-buffer |
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Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:27:02 +0000 |
On Thursday, September 5th, 2024 at 4:37 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 10:11:11PM +0000, alexbuhl via Users list for the GNU
> Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> > Is there a real difference between doing
> >
> > (get-buffer-create "Questor")
> >
> > and
> >
> > (with-output-to-temp-buffer "Questor"
>
>
> With-output-to-temp-buffer calls get-buffer-create and redirects standard
> output to it.
>
> If you want to do /other/ things with your new buffer, you'll need the
> first function.
Including text properties seems to make with-output-to-temp-buffer fail.
Are text properties part of those other things where I would need
get-buffer-create ?
> Try looking up its docstring (C-h f with-output-to-temp-buffer), perhaps
> follow the link to its source. It's short and sweet.
>
> Cheers
> --
> t