From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is with-temp-buffer really temporary?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:53:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIcoTU48m9NCef54@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1iwq0qk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
* Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [2021-04-26 22:59]:
> > I wish to use Emacs to accept file online and file should enter memory
> > and memory should be deleted thereafter.
> > Thus, if I use with-temp-buffer function, how sure is it that anything
> > that as in temporary buffer is not any more in the memory of computer?
>
> Emacs Lisp does not "scrape" the memory that it stops using.
> IIRC the only kind of scraping offered is what you get with
> `clear-string` and AFAIK we have nothing equivalent for buffer text.
Also good to know.
And if Emacs exits, finishes the process, is memory then scraped?
--
Jean
Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns:
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns
Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman
https://stallmansupport.org/
https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 17:51 Is with-temp-buffer really temporary? Jean Louis
2021-04-26 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-26 20:53 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-04-26 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 7:11 ` tomas
2021-04-27 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 17:39 ` Jean Louis
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=YIcoTU48m9NCef54@protected.localdomain \
--to=bugs@gnu.support \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).