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Re: Proposal: move write-contents-functions higher up in basic-save-buff
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Proposal: move write-contents-functions higher up in basic-save-buffer |
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Wed, 24 May 2017 10:12:33 -0400 |
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> I thought that's what I was doing! If a buffer isn't visiting a file,
> there's essentially no way to guess what "saving it" would mean.
That's true, as a generality. The only way that "saving" a non-file
buffer could be meaningful is if Emacs is told precisely what saving
should mean for that buffer.
The
> mode that created the buffer would need to provide a function that does
> the saving. Then basic-save-buffer would need to be taught to call that
> function, instead of insisting that the buffer have a file.
> Then it occurred to
> me that write-contents-functions seems like a good place to do this. Now
> I'm not sure.
Please try using write-contents-functions for this, and you'll see if it
does the job. If not, you'll see what more change is needed.
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