Re: write-region bug ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 12:37, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 01:42:35 +0900
>> 
>> Now, I am no insisting that my t value for VISIT is correct, and I don't know where I got the idea of setting it to t. But the fact is that I don't see much value in sending a string to a file and right after it having the file overwritten with the whole buffer where the write-region command was.
> 
> It is not an uncommon situation that some feature doesn't look like
> being of much value to us, until we get into a use case where it does.

Indeed. 

And I wish I understood better what 

(docstring) "the buffer is marked as visiting FILENAME."

(lisp reference) "Emacs establishes an association between the buffer and the file: the buffer is then visiting that file."

mean practically speaking, because nowhere in those sentences does it imply (to me) that the buffer contents will overwrite the file.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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