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From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Missing `with' macro?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:17:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0607240317g1bcdd564g66d075f809bcb7b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I am currently optimizing some defuns in tumme.el and found that I do
the following repeatdely:

 (setq buf (find-file tumme-db-file))
 ;; do a lot of stuff in it
 (save-buffer) ;; optionally
 (kill-buffer buf)

I really like the different `with' macros that Emacs has and was
surprised there wasn't any `with-file' macro, that could be callable
like this:

(with-file tumme-db-file
  ;; do stuff)

It could have two modes, reading and writing as sometimes you just
want to use the information in the opened file, not write back to it.

I guess what I want is this, without the call to `insert-file-contents':

(with-temp-file tumme-db-file
  (insert-file-contents tumme-db-file)
  ;; do stuff)

What do others think? Is the with-temp-file + insert-file-contents combo enough?

             reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 10:17 Mathias Dahl [this message]
2006-07-24 13:46 ` Missing `with' macro? Stefan Monnier
2006-07-24 14:33   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-24 18:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-24 20:55   ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-25  3:09     ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28  2:14   ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-28  2:23     ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-29 15:18     ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01  1:06       ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-07  5:01         ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-07 21:38           ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-08 18:01             ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-08 18:32               ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-09  4:58                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-08 18:01             ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-16 19:59               ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-08-17 15:18                 ` Richard Stallman

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