From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Problem using with-temp-file Date: 7 Feb 2007 07:52:18 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170863538.259548.305890@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170866461 1743 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2007 16:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 17:40:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEpqc-0003mn-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:40:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEpqb-0000fI-Kp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.221 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170863545 7965 127.0.0.1 (7 Feb 2007 15:52:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:52:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.221; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145329 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40935 Archived-At: When I use with-temp-file I end up with an empty file although the trace doesn't show me any good reason for the file being empty. Does anyone see why I get an empty file? I inserted the call to debug and looked at the temp buffer to be sure the correct data really was in the buffer. The arguments to write- region seem to confirm that it's working against the correct buffer.... Thanks Debugger entered--entering a function: * write-region(1 2943 "~/Data-2007-02-07-07:17.txt" nil 0) * (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (widen) (write-region (point-min) (point-max) temp-file nil 0)) * (with-current-buffer temp-buffer (widen) (write-region (point-min) (point-max) temp-file nil 0)) (prog1 (with-current-buffer temp-buffer (insert ...) (debug)) (with- current-buffer temp-buffer (widen) (write-region ... ... temp-file nil 0))) (unwind-protect (prog1 (with-current-buffer temp-buffer ... ...) (with-current-buffer temp-buffer ... ...)) (and (buffer-name temp- buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer))) (let ((temp-file my-data-file) (temp-buffer ...)) (unwind-protect (prog1 ... ...) (and ... ...))) (with-temp-file my-data-file (insert (get-my-data)) (debug)) eval((with-temp-file my-data-file (insert (get-my-data)) (debug))) eval-expression((with-temp-file my-data-file (insert (get-my-data)) (debug)) nil) call-interactively(eval-expression)