From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem using with-temp-file Date: 8 Feb 2007 02:30:15 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170930615.412740.134390@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1170863538.259548.305890@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1170867163.601581.206430@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1170871508.908148.287000@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1170872955.155482.123790@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170931238 23877 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 10:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 11:40:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HF6hY-0004Bl-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HF6hY-0005z7-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170930621 5019 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2007 10:30:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:30:21 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1170872955.155482.123790@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145349 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40955 Archived-At: On Feb 7, 6:29 pm, "rgb" wrote: > On Feb 7, 12:05 pm, "rgb" wrote: > > > > > On Feb 7, 10:52 am, "Robert Thorpe" wrote: > > > > On Feb 7, 3:52 pm, "rgb" wrote: > > > > > When I use with-temp-file I end up with an empty file although the > > > > trace doesn't show me any good reason for the file being empty. > > > > > Does anyone see why I get an empty file? > > > > I inserted the call to debug and looked at the temp buffer to be sure > > > > the correct data really was in the buffer. The arguments to write- > > > > region seem to confirm that it's working against the correct > > > > buffer.... > > > > Could you post your code too? It would help. > > > By "your code" you must mean the contents of get-my-data? > > It's big and messy but I tried to whittle it down. > > At that point I found that when I brought it all the way down to > > (defun get-my-data () "hello") > > I still ended up with an empty file. > > At which point I tried this with the same results > > (with-temp-file my-data-file (insert "This really sucks")) > > After noticing that this > (with-temp-file "Test.txt" (insert "More testing")) > worked fine. > I realized wherein the problem lies > > Debugger entered--entering a function: > * write-region(1 2943 "~/Data-2007-02-07-07:17.txt" nil 0) > > The empty file's name is "Data-2007-02-07-07" not > "Data-2007-02-07-07:17.txt" > write-region must be mishandling an error of some kind. Looks like your Emacs is mistaking the ":" in the filename for the end of the filename. On MS Windows with GNU Emacs 21.3 this doesn't happen to me, the above works fine. This could be a bug in filename handling in Emacs, or in the C library of the platform it is using.