From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: write-region bug ?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:05:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8veaq74.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81246516-A350-4E2A-9F1C-F80BFA0C0316@traduction-libre.org> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:27:35 +0900)
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:27:35 +0900
>
> 25.1 Visiting Files
>
> "Visiting a file means reading a file into a buffer. Once this is done, we say that the buffer is visiting that file, and call the file the visited file of the buffer."
>
>
> → My understanding from the above manual quotes is that file B.txt is read into the buffer where file A.txt is.
>
> I don't know how that should look like, but what I see is seemingly the opposite: full contents of file A.txt is written to file B.txt.
>
> There is obviously something that I am missing in the documentation.
This:
Saving
Saving a buffer means copying its text into the file that was
visited (q.v.) in that buffer.
IOW, the association established by visiting means that saving the
buffer well update the visited file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-08 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-02 16:54 write-region bug ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-01-02 17:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-02 17:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-04 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-04 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 22:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 2:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 5:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 4:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 16:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 3:50 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 5:58 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 15:27 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-08 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-09 0:04 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 0:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-01-09 12:30 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 14:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-09 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 23:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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