Re: write-region, auto-compression-mode, file endings

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hi, in some code for a scripting project I use `write-region' calls to
> (over)write data into files, from a temp buffer. This works fine, except
> that for reasons I won't go into, the file names involved have unusual file
> ending like "..Z", which causes auto-complete-mode to kick in, which is not
> good in my case.

You can prepend `/:` to the absolute file name, so as to circumvent any
file-name-handler.


        Stefan