From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Writing without a message? Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:03:35 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9892BC5930@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424721837 19806 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2015 20:03:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:03:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 23 21:03:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YPzEO-0005p3-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPzEO-0006GC-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPzEC-0006F5-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPzE7-0006x4-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:42188 helo=livemail.shubertorg.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPzE7-0006wo-6A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.03.0123.003; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:03:35 -0500 Thread-Topic: Writing without a message? Thread-Index: AdBPo83chUwAPc4XQOS6CAQNcXg/3g== Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102854 Archived-At: Saving a buffer without a message (as if there's a person watching) would b= e useful to me.=20 I can't figure out how to do it. All of (save-buffer), (basic-save-buffer), (basic-save-buffer-1), (basic-sa= ve-buffer-2),=20 (write-file) and (write-region) display messages.=20 I've been down in the code to DEFUN ("write-region",....), and even it want= s to engage a person. Someone somewhere must have wanted a simple, small write(2) kind of functio= n. Can anyone help me? --=20 ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 or ext 4335 The human brain is the most complex thing known to man, according to the hu= man brain.