From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to automatically write *Messages" buffer to a file? Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:00:57 +0100 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7eact6oqjq.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: <87sm6zl4sx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <01c4d23d$Blat.v2.2.2$c2b81b20@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101334254 15961 80.91.229.6 (24 Nov 2004 22:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 24 23:10:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CX5Ld-0006KM-00 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:10:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CX5Un-0004FJ-VZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1101333655 22435 193.204.44.145 (24 Nov 2004 22:00:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:00:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o+7HsSf3EY8iUsaTLWoDph8TLk4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126887 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22288 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22288 Joe Corneli writes: > True, using `write-region' is more transparent (and I had an > error in my advice to this function), but I don't see why > advising `write-region' and then calling `append-to-file' > wouldn't work. i don't understand what you mean by transparent, here. thi