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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to write a string to a file inside emacs ?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:15:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwstctx9m.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1193195837.604586.170970@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com

> Can you make any of these work? I tried the non-kludge feature,
> which works and its not the path name. There is some debugger
> error which i cant understand.

> (write-region "astring" 2  "file2" APPEND)

Why 2?

> (write-region "astring"  "file2" APPEND)

You forgot the END argument.

> (write-region "astring"   "file2" )

Same here.

> (write-region "astring" 2  "file2" )

Again, why 2?

I use (write-region "foo" nil "/tmp/toto") and it works dandy.


        Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-23 16:26 How to write a string to a file inside emacs ? gnuist006
2007-10-23 16:30 ` gnuist006
2007-10-23 16:42   ` gnuist006
2007-10-23 16:45     ` Rainer Joswig
2007-10-23 17:00       ` gnuist006
2007-10-24  8:45       ` Xah Lee
2007-10-24  8:49       ` Xah Lee
2007-10-24 11:05         ` Bastien
2007-10-24 21:17         ` George Neuner
2007-10-24 22:16         ` Rainer Joswig
2007-10-23 17:05     ` gnuist006
2007-10-24  1:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24  3:17       ` gnuist006
2007-10-24 14:15         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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