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From: stephan.zimmer@googlemail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Is there an ELisp function for reading file contents in a string?
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 05:11:55 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cc58ccd-001d-42bc-ad4f-0824204ffc5a@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi,

does anybody know whether there is a function in elisp that just reads
the contents of a text file into a string?

So far, I haven't found anything that could be related to that. The
only, yet not very charming, possibility that I currently see is to
use the "insert-file" function in combination with the "buffer-
(sub)string" function and later erase the inserted file contents
again.

Thanks very much,
  Stephan


             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 13:11 stephan.zimmer [this message]
2008-02-06 15:13 ` Is there an ELisp function for reading file contents in a string? Juanma Barranquero
     [not found] ` <mailman.7038.1202310789.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-06 16:07   ` stephan.zimmer
2008-02-06 18:22   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-02-06 22:52     ` Juanma Barranquero

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