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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: alexbuhl <alexbuhl@protonmail.com>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The real difference between get-buffer-create and with-output-to-temp-buffer
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:27:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lqO_zXGGNPhxbURM2uUEYqOJJBSe8sK05PnqkZgtSFOmFjzZYU8yQUDs286cCNO8PcuHRWRANZm0azpWFQQo2tQCKYRJsf1OkLAnHjBOfrM=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ztk1h4YotadHLXMZ@tuxteam.de>

On Thursday, September 5th, 2024 at 4:37 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 10:11:11PM +0000, alexbuhl via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> 
> > Is there a real difference between doing
> > 
> > (get-buffer-create "Questor")
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > (with-output-to-temp-buffer "Questor"
> 
> 
> With-output-to-temp-buffer calls get-buffer-create and redirects standard
> output to it.
> 
> If you want to do /other/ things with your new buffer, you'll need the
> first function.

Including text properties seems to make with-output-to-temp-buffer fail.
Are text properties part of those other things where I would need 
get-buffer-create ?
 
> Try looking up its docstring (C-h f with-output-to-temp-buffer), perhaps
> follow the link to its source. It's short and sweet.
> 
> Cheers
> --
> t



      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-05 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-04 22:11 The real difference between get-buffer-create and with-output-to-temp-buffer alexbuhl via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-09-05  4:37 ` tomas
2024-09-05 11:27   ` Heime [this message]

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