From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Persistence of variables Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:06:41 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86zi2ymata.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87a7v20xlf.fsf@mbork.pl> <83a7v1lxxz.fsf@gnu.org> <87605p28ma.fsf@mbork.pl> <874ll94uvs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <86bmfhqpez.fsf@zoho.com> <87605ovqkn.fsf@pointsman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1521860911 31222 195.159.176.226 (24 Mar 2018 03:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 03:08:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 24 04:08:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ezZXe-00082Y-11 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:08:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezZZh-0008TT-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:10:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dwgcotDLYYNMpwH15Kv79TRYKlI= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222154 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116272 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Rolf Ade >> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:36:56 +0100 >> >> >> (defun write-string-to-file (string file) >> >> "Write STRING to FILE. >> >> Create nonexistent FILE otherwise overwrite." >> >> (interactive "sstring: \nFfile: ") >> >> (with-temp-file file >> >> (insert string "\n") )) >> > >> > We have append-to-file, which can do this out of the box. >> >> I'm sorry to nit, but Emanuels >> write-string-to-file differs from >> append-to-file in that it ensures the file >> includes (only) string while append-to-file, >> well, appends string to the file at the end, >> if it exists. > > And I'm sorry to nit back, but creating an > empty file is trivial, in which case > append-to-file will do the same job. > > More to the point, I think this feature of > append-to-file is largely unknown, which is > why I made a point of mentioning it. (Btw, > write-region supports a very > similar feature.) 1) topic drift isn't OT unless its OT 2) one would even suspect - if Manny wasn't such a skilled programmer - he would have written that function because he didn't *know* of the append-to-file-use! But of course that seems completely unthinkable You can fire your arrows from the tower of Babylon. But you can NEVER strike God! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573