Re: How to write a string to a file inside emacs ?

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Sure, lets everyone do it. thx for pointing it out.

On Oct 23, 9:45 am, Rainer Joswig <jos...@lisp.de> wrote:
> In article <1193157722.974559.53...@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
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>  gnuist...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Oct 23, 9:30 am, gnuist...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Oct 23, 9:26 am, gnuist...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > > Here is the problem:
>
> > > > How would you write a string to a file inside emacs ? There is the
> > > > main buffer that you are viewing called file1. Here you run a lisp
> > > > function which is supposed to write some text of the file or in a
> > > > variable to another file called file2.
>
> > > > I have looked and found this function:
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> > > > (append-to-file START END FILENAME)
>
> > > > This function is only good enough to copy selected text from file1 to
> > > > file2, BUT I want a function that copies value of a string variable
> > > > str-var into file2 or some other string. Basically, I want a
> > > > generalization/modification of the command "insert" to append which
> > > > takes a filename as an argument and appends a given string over there.
>
> > > > I know one dirty workaround is to insert the text in file1, and then
> > > > append-to-file into file2 and then remove it from file1.
>
> > > > Is there a faster or cleaner approach ? This has to be done a lot and
> > > > one wants something faster than writing, copying and erasing.
>
> > > > append-to-buffer is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
> > > > (append-to-buffer BUFFER START END)
>
> > > > Append to specified buffer the text of the region.
> > > > It is inserted into that buffer before its point.
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> > > > When calling from a program, give three arguments:
> > > > BUFFER (or buffer name), START and END.
> > > > START and END specify the portion of the current buffer to be copied.
>
> > > just found the write-file is based on write-region but neither solves
> > > my problem.
>
> > Kludgy feature: if START is a string, then that string is written
> > to the file, instead of any buffer contents, and END is ignored.
> > <--------It does not seem to work