From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Missing `with' macro?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:46:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvslkr5de4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0607240317g1bcdd564g66d075f809bcb7b2@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:17:29 +0200")
> (setq buf (find-file tumme-db-file))
> ;; do a lot of stuff in it
> (save-buffer) ;; optionally
> (kill-buffer buf)
Just for the record, the above code will bomb out if the current window is
a minibuffer or is dedicated: Always prefer find-file-noselect to find-file.
Stefan "whose windows are all dedicated or minibuffers"
PS: Regarding with-file, it would be nice, but please make sure it can be
used also when you just want to read the file, and also when you
specifically don't want the major mode to be set, and also when you do
want the major mode to be set, and also be careful not to kill
a pre-existing buffer inadvertently, ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-24 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-24 10:17 Missing `with' macro? Mathias Dahl
2006-07-24 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-07-24 14:33 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-24 18:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-24 20:55 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-25 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 2:14 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-28 2:23 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-29 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 1:06 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-07 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-07 21:38 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-08 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-08 18:32 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-09 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-08 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-16 19:59 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-17 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
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