From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: save-current-buffer Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:57:44 +0000 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <3a900$48faa228$cef88ba3$6936@TEKSAVVY.COM> References: <1224362986.875430@arno.fh-trier.de> <0oCdnWtUBfnQ8GfVnZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@sysmatrix.net> Reply-To: cfajohnson@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224387642 3589 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2008 03:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 05:41:46 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KrPAn-0004CR-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrP9h-0004Oz-P5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: 3a90048faa2286b5d2e0606936 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163579 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:58920 Archived-At: On 2008-10-18, B. T. Raven wrote: > Andreas Politz wrote: >> >> >> Is this a bug, or am I missing something ? >> Eval this in *scratch* buffer and you end up in the *Help* one. >> >> (save-current-buffer >> (switch-to-buffer "*Help*")) >> >> >> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 >> >> >> -ap > > That's what you would expect. If you don't have an Emacs generated > read-only *Help* buffer open then you will create an editable one with > that name. Why does it seem like a bug? Of course the file *Help* can't > be saved because the file name is illegal. It is? That's news to me. In fact, I just created a buffer named *Help* and saved it. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)