From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-current-buffer
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:57:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a900$48faa228$cef88ba3$6936@TEKSAVVY.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0oCdnWtUBfnQ8GfVnZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@sysmatrix.net
On 2008-10-18, B. T. Raven wrote:
> Andreas Politz wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is this a bug, or am I missing something ?
>> Eval this in *scratch* buffer and you end up in the *Help* one.
>>
>> (save-current-buffer
>> (switch-to-buffer "*Help*"))
>>
>>
>> GNU Emacs 22.2.1
>>
>>
>> -ap
>
> That's what you would expect. If you don't have an Emacs generated
> read-only *Help* buffer open then you will create an editable one with
> that name. Why does it seem like a bug? Of course the file *Help* can't
> be saved because the file name is illegal.
It is? That's news to me. In fact, I just created a buffer named
*Help* and saved it.
--
Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-18 20:43 save-current-buffer Andreas Politz
2008-10-18 23:12 ` save-current-buffer B. T. Raven
2008-10-19 2:57 ` Chris F.A. Johnson [this message]
2008-10-20 0:37 ` save-current-buffer B. T. Raven
2008-10-19 7:24 ` save-current-buffer Glauber Alex Dias Prado
[not found] ` <mailman.1486.1224401134.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-19 10:31 ` save-current-buffer Andreas Politz
2008-10-19 15:44 ` save-current-buffer Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.1511.1224431046.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 11:26 ` save-current-buffer Andreas Politz
2008-10-21 21:21 ` save-current-buffer Nikolaj Schumacher
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